Buenos Aires, December 26 (NA)—María Alexandra Gómez, wife of Argentine gendarme Nahuel Gallo, who was kidnapped by the Venezuelan government 383 days ago, specified that last Sunday, December 21, she received information from relatives of Venezuelans held at Rodeo 1 about the "psychological torture" to which foreigners are being subjected. "The information reached us through relatives of Venezuelans who can receive visits, who are concerned about the situation of foreigners in Venezuela," Gómez commented, according to information obtained today by the Argentine News Agency. In this sense, Gómez commented: "Foreigners detained in Venezuela are vulnerable in every sense, they are isolated, they are completely at the mercy of what the Maduro government can do with them. It is not time to remain silent, it is time to raise our voice, because this is indeed a conflict between countries." Gallo was detained on December 8, 2024. Gallo was detained by Venezuelan officials on December 8, 2024, in Venezuela, when he entered the country legally to visit his wife and his two-year-old son, who were on vacation in Caracas because the woman lived in Argentina, but had her mother and sister in the Venezuelan capital. "It is distressing because we, the relatives, are tied hand and foot, we don't know what to do, we don't know who to turn to. I believe that international organizations and all of Argentina must raise their voices for these atrocities that political prisoners in Venezuela are experiencing today," Gómez commented in statements to the Latin American news signal DNEWS. The role of María Corina Machado On the other hand, Venezuelan opposition leader and 2025 Nobel Peace Prize winner María Corina Machado announced in a Christmas message that she will return "very soon" to Venezuela to begin the "definitive phase" of the democratic struggle for political change in the South American country. Machado went through all kinds of ordeals to get to Oslo recently, where her daughter arrived in time to receive the distinction. All this happens while Venezuela releases political prisoners, pressured internationally and with the US blockade off its coasts.
