According to the documents that Clarín had access to, on November 22, 2024, María Gómez García, partner of Gendarme Gallo, presented a “Letter of invitation to travel to Venezuela”; The Saren accepted the payment of the fees for the procedure, certified the signatures and validated the permit
The diary Clarion of Argentina reported this Wednesday, December 25, that the government of Nicolás Maduro had enabled the procedures so that the Argentine gendarme detained in Venezuela, Nahuel Gallo, could travel to the state of Anzoátegui to see his partner and his son, according to official Venezuelan records. and Argentines who were accessed by the media.
According to the documents that the media had access to, on November 22, 2024, María Gómez García, Gallo’s partner, presented a “Letter of invitation to travel to Venezuela”, the document required by the Maduro government for the Foreigners can visit the country without problems and with an official record that supports that trip, which includes the person they are going to visit and also the address where they plan to reside. Argentines do not need a visa to travel for tourism purposes.
«Gómez García advised that Gallo was going to stay in his apartment in Puerto La Cruz, and that he was going to enter from Colombia by land through the Simón Bolívar International Bridge on December 7. From that bridge on the Colombian border to Puerto La Cruz there are about 1,200 kilometers of busy routes in Venezuela, which connect several of the country’s main cities,” the report details.
Permit validation
The documents exposed by the local newspaper indicate that on the “same day” of the presentation, the Autonomous Service of Registries and Notaries (Saren) accepted the payment of the fees for the procedure (804 bolivars and eighty cents), certified the signatures and validated the permission.
«However, even though he had the Letter of Invitation in order, he was detained in Venezuelan territory by the Maduro government. A firm indication that Gallo had his papers in order is that the man was not rejected at the border by the immigration authorities – as happens in any country in the world when someone arrives who does not have the necessary documents to enter – and was already detained inside. of Venezuela,” points out the Clarion.
This Tuesday, December 24, the former Argentine ambassador to Venezuela during the government of Alberto Fernández, Oscar Laborde, said in an interview with The Nation that Argentina had never notified Colombia or Venezuela that an active gendarme would travel to those countries.
«It is not clear who issued the authorization, the Gendarmerie attaché in Colombia was not notified, nor was Venezuela notified that a gendarme was entering. All of this complicated the situation for the gendarme, and motivated a number of suspicions,” Laborde told The Nation.
He Clarion indicates that Gallo, in turn, had notified the Gendarmerie that he would travel to Venezuela during his vacation leave period. «According to the records of that security force, since he joined in 2009, Gallo had never left the country on vacation. This time, they authorized him to travel to Venezuela during his vacations, which range from December 5, 2024 to January 3, 2025.
Gendarme Gallo case
Nahuel Gallo was detained on December 8, when he was crossing the “Francisco de Paula Santander” International Bridge, to go to Táchira, with the purpose of visiting his family and his partner, with whom he shares a son in common. Five days later, the Argentine Foreign Ministry and the Argentine Ministry of Security rejected in a statement the “arbitrary and unjustified” detention of the non-commissioned officer of the Argentine National Gendarmerie.
On December 16, the Minister of the Interior, Justice and Peace, Diosdado Cabello, at the PSUV’s weekly press conference, confirmed Gallo’s arrest – after eight days of reporting his forced disappearance – and assured that he came to the country to a mission «to carry out an operation to remove the six opponents from the Embassy of the South American nation in Caracas.
Read the full report at Clarion.
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