Two of the imprisoned Spaniards are accused of organizing a plot to “destabilize” the country. The third was arrested while carrying out a scientific exploration in the Caribbean.
Spain will continue working “at all levels” to achieve the release of three Spaniards detained in Venezuela “without legal basis,” the Government stated this Tuesday, December 23, when the Chief Executive, Pedro Sánchez, met with relatives of those affected.
Sánchez received at the Moncloa palace, seat of the Government, relatives of José María Basoa, Andrés Martínez Adasme and Miguel Moreno Dapena, who have been in prison in Venezuela for months.
At the meeting, Sánchez informed the relatives of the detainees “that the Government of Spain will continue working and taking steps at all levels to achieve the release and repatriation of the Spaniards” subject to “arbitrary detentions without legal basis,” the presidency reported in a brief press release.
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Basoa and Martínez Adasme were arrested in September 2024 in Puerto Ayacucho, in southern Venezuela, on charges of organizing a plot to attack Nicolás Maduro and “destabilize” the country.
They were captured along with three American citizens and a Czech.
Moreno Dapena was arrested last June when he was aboard a ship that was searching for remains of ancient shipwrecks in the Caribbean, but which according to the Venezuelan Armed Forces was carrying out scientific research without permission in the country’s territorial waters.
The IACHR granted precautionary measures in favor of Dapena and the other crew members of the boat. In the resolution issued in November, it asked the Venezuelan State to report on the accusations and the formal whereabouts of the detainees.
According to the organization Foro Penal, as of December 15 there were 86 prisoners of foreign nationality. According to the detailed report presented at the beginning of November, among the detained foreigners were four Spaniards and 15 with dual nationality (Spanish-Venezuelan).
With information from the AFP agency
*Journalism in Venezuela is carried out in a hostile environment for the press with dozens of legal instruments in place to punish the word, especially the laws “against hate”, “against fascism” and “against the blockade.” This content was written taking into consideration the threats and limits that, consequently, have been imposed on the dissemination of information from within the country.
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