The international community demands that the Nicolás Maduro regime
release the Hispanic-Venezuelan human rights activist,
Rocío San Miguel
, and five members of her family, whose whereabouts are still unknown after her forcible detention by secret police agents this weekend. of the week in Caracas.
The United States is
"deeply concerned"
about the detention of the activist and expert on military issues in Venezuela and is following the situation "very, very closely," a White House spokesperson said Tuesday.
"We are aware of reports that Rocío San Miguel, and I believe a couple of her family members, have been detained. We are deeply concerned about that," said National Security Council spokesman John Kirby.
"I'm not going to get into speculation about what exactly happened here or what we might do as a result.
But I can tell you that we are following this very, very closely
," he added.
Amnesty International calls for the immediate and unconditional release of Rocío del Carmen San Miguel Sosa;
Miranda Díaz San Miguel, daughter;
Miguel Ángel San Miguel Sosa, brother;
Alberto San Miguel Quigosos, brother;
Víctor Díaz Paruta, Miranda's father;
Alejandro González Canales, Rocío's ex-partner.
San Miguel's arrest occurred on Friday the 9th at the Maiquetía airport in Caracas
when he was going to take a flight abroad with his daughter Miranda San Miguel, a 24-year-old journalist, who returned to the city to alert her family about what occurred.
And the arrest of the five members of her family happened the next day.
The president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, during his weekly program "Maduro+" in Caracas.
Photo EFE
Attorney General Tarek William Saab has confirmed the arrest of Rocío San Miguel that occurred on Friday the 9th and her family in
his
account DGCIM.
Saab specified that the crimes charged to the president of the NGO Citizen Control are
treason, conspiracy, terrorism and association in the conspiratorial plot against the government of Nicolás Maduro
, called "white bracelet."
The prosecutor did not specify the place of confinement or health conditions of the lawyer and expert in military issues when announcing that he will officially request the custodial measure before the Second Court Against Terrorism against the lawyer and director of the NGO Control Ciudadano, Rocío San. Miguel.
Lawyer Juan González Taguaruco, defender of San Miguel, denounces the "forced disappearance" of her and her family group, pointing out that they have gone to several detention sites and they are denied that the activist is in any.
He indicates that the information offered by Tarek William Saab
is full of irregularities
because it leaves many dark spots in his public information.
No data
Regarding the seriousness of forced disappearances, lawyer González denounced "the state of absolute defenselessness, there is no way to resist that, when a State is plotting to remove a person from their social environment, these things happen, there is no way to know." "Where it is, there is no way to defend it, the State can do anything with it, without anyone being able to exercise any type of control in the face of these extreme measures."
Help Spain
In conversation with
Clarín
, Minnie Díaz Paruta, recounted how her niece Miranda and her father Víctor Díaz Paruta were detained at the Maiquetía airport when they went to pick up the suitcase for the flight to Miami that they had missed the day before due to the arrest of Rocío San Miguel. .
''Rocío is innocent of the charges against her,
as is the entire family group, which has been harassed and persecuted by the Venezuelan authorities without any explanation,'' he said.
Minnie asked the Spanish government for help to ''ensure the human rights of Rocío and Miranda, who are also Spanish and Venezuelan and whose life is in danger of death given the situation in the country's prisons.
The charges brought against Rocío and her current partner, Alejandro González, are absolutely false.”
Nazi torture
The harassment and persecution of which the relatives of the activist San Miguel were victims
is reminiscent of the Nazi methods
, known as 'Sippenhaft', used to torture and soften the relatives of political prisoners and dissidents during the Hitler era.
The former president of the interim government, Juan Guaido, exiled in Miami, accused the president of the Chavista National Assembly, Jorge Rodríguez, of using Nazi methods against Venezuelans.
"
Here you have the person responsible for torturing Rocío San Miguel
by disappearing her relatives. Sippenhaft called him the Nazis and the UN already pointed out to Maduro in his independent report of this aberration that today he applies again to instill terror. And out of cowardice, to justify who do not comply, nor do they have a word: the perpetrators pretend to be victims,'' he wrote in X.
The next steps that lawyer González will take is to “address us in writing to the Prosecutor's Office, to the Ombudsman's Office, because it is evidently a case that concerns these two bodies of public power and they are the ones who exercise these powers in Venezuela.”
Support from the international community
The US Embassy in Venezuela spoke
out
in
We join the international community in calling for the release of all political prisoners, an end to the detention of their innocent family members and a return to the commitments set out in the Barbados Agreement.”
The Inter-American Commission on
Human Rights
in
For his part, the Secretary of the OAS demands the release of Rocío San Miguel and an end to political persecution.
P.B.