Mariana González, daughter of the elected president of Venezuela Edmundo González Urrutia, demanded a certificate of life from her husband, Rafael Tudares, detained since January 7, 2025.
“I demand a faith of life because I need to know how my husband is, I need to hear his voice, I need to be able to give him the basics, the elemental. More than a year without hearing my husband’s voice. No one who has been isolated from their family for more than a year can be well. Psychological torture becomes stronger than physical torture and this is both for him and his family,” he said in a video published on X.
He said that he has visited several detention centers in search of answers, but in all of them he receives the same phrase: “He is not here.” Even so, she insists on going to El Rodeo I, located in the state of Miranda, because that is where she has been assured—informally—that her husband would be held.
González also described the devastating impact that the forced disappearance has had on his family, especially in their children.
“Yesterday my youngest daughter told me: ‘I had a dream, but it wasn’t a pretty dream. I dreamed that dad was here sitting on the couch, but he didn’t remember me’. Just as he must be suffering, because he doesn’t know how we are here. The whole family suffers because they don’t know how Rafael Bracho is,” he said.
She remembered that her husband He was sentenced to 30 years in prison, “a court order that I am unaware of.”
And he added: “Rafael is innocent. Rafael has not committed any crime. I demand a faith of life. It’s my right. It is my husband’s right, it is my children’s right. Rafael is an only child and has a mother who is waiting for him at home. “I demand justice, I demand a faith of life and I demand humanity.”
Domingo 11 de enero de 2026
3:30 pm.Cuando alguien pasa más de un año desaparecido e incomunicado, el daño no es solo físico y mental: es humano. Para él y a su familia.
Pedir libertad no es política: es justicia, es reivindicar los derechos humanos.
Somos una familia… pic.twitter.com/JXow7gEskU
— Mariana Gonzalez de Tudares (@MarianaGTudares) January 11, 2026
Rafael Tudares Bracho, son-in-law of the elected president Edmundo González Urrutia, It was last Wednesday a year in forced disappearance in Venezuela. The forces of the socialist regime, then led by Nicolás Maduro, detained him in retaliation after the opposition’s victory in the presidential elections on July 28, 2024, according to the complaints.
Hooded men intercepted him on January 7 of last year in Caracas, when he was taking his two children to school. Since then, He has not had contact with his family, who do not know his place of confinement and the conditions in which he is found.
