Rafael Tudares Bracho, son-in-law of opposition leader Edmundo González Urrutia, has been released in Venezuela, according to his wife, who also thanked “very especially each and every one of the people” for their “human” support in her struggle. “All my solidarity and support”. González Urrutia's son-in-law was detained on January 7, 2025, when human rights defender Carlos Correa and former opposition presidential candidate Enrique Márquez were also arrested; the latter two were released. “I must report that after 380 days of an unjust arbitrary detention and having suffered, for over a year, an inhumane situation of forced disappearance, my husband Rafael Tudares Bracho has returned home this early morning,” stated Mariana González de Tudares. In a post published on her X social media account, accessed by Noticias Argentinas Agency, she added: “This has been a stoic and very tough struggle for over a year, in which we finally achieved Rafael's release, and we hope, sooner rather than later, for his full freedom, to which he is entitled.” “I thank very especially each and every person who supported me humanly, in the fight for his freedom, and the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human team based in Panama, who always followed up and advocated on this case within its humanitarian mandate,” expressed Tudares. Tudares also pointed out: “To all the relatives of the victims of forced disappearances, arbitrary detentions and unjustly imprisoned, who are still waiting for the freedom of their loved ones.”
