Nahuel Gallo was arrested at the beginning of December when he entered Venezuela to see his partner, who lives in Táchira. Minister Diosdado Cabello pointed out that he had allegedly come to the country to “accomplish a mission”
The Federal Chamber of Mendoza, the province where Argentine gendarme Nahuel Gallo works, urged the Maduro administration to report his whereabouts; Just as he demands to know why he was detained, what authority he is at, and to facilitate contact with his family.
This was decided this Monday, December 23, by the legislative chamber of said province and, according to the court ruling, the official entered the territory of Venezuela from Colombia on December 8, through a land border crossing, through the Simón Bolívar International Bridge. , to go to Táchira where, upon entering, they took his cell phone and luggage.
According to what was stated by the gendarme’s partner, María Gómez, of Venezuelan nationality and Argentine resident for six years and mother of his two-year-old son, Gallo was transported in a “black van” by the General Directorate of Military Counterintelligence of Venezuela ( Dgcim).
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The Gendarmerie “understands that this would be a case of illegitimate deprivation of liberty,” the ruling warned.
The Minister of the Interior and Justice, Diosdado Cabello, confirmed the arrest of Gallo, whom he accused of traveling to the Caribbean country to “accomplish a mission,” which would have the objective of removing asylum seekers from the Argentine Embassy.
According to Argentine authorities, Gallo was accused of espionage by the Maduro Government, held incommunicado and transferred to an intelligence center, as part of the Venezuelan’s “strategy” of “taking hostages” to “ensure his impunity” in the face of the takeover. of power on January 10th.
They allowed epistolary communication between Gallo and his mother
The former ambassador of Argentina in Venezuela Oscar Laborde, together with the social leader linked to Kirchnerism, Juan Grabois, allegedly interceded on behalf of the Argentine gendarme Nahuel Gallo, detained since the beginning of December 2024, so that he could have an exchange of letters with his mother; who in recent days asked the Minister of the Interior and Justice, Diosdado Cabello, to have “empathy” and let him know if his son was okay.
According to a newspaper article The Nationpublished on December 22, Griselda Heredia – Gallo’s mother – would have sent a letter to her son and that it was received. However, the woman has still not received an epistolary response from her son; This without the Argentine Foreign Ministry being involved in the process because they claim to have no record of any contact.
However, they expressed that I hope the efforts are “true” because the gendarme’s case does not respond to political flags but is a national cause.
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Sources consulted by the aforementioned newspaper estimate that Nahuel Gallo will remain detained in Venezuela at least until January 10, the day on which President Nicolás Maduro plans to take office for a third term at the head of the country.
Laborde supports Cabello’s thesis that El Gallo did not go to Venezuela to see his partner, but rather to do espionage work. For this reason, he targeted the Minister of Security of Argentina, Patricia Bullrich, whom he accused of “lying” about the objectives of the gendarme’s trip. He stated, in a post on the
With additional information from EFE
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