The Argentine foreign minister, Gerardo Wertheinrevealed that the Chavista dictatorship officially confirmed for the first time that the Argentine gendarme Nahuel Gallo was arrested on December 8. The communication reached the Government through Brazil, which is in charge of the Argentine embassy in Caracas and is mediating in the case.
According to the version of Nicolás Maduro’s regime, Gallo is in perfect physical and psychological health.
“Nahuel went from being illegally kidnapped, with an unknown whereabouts, to being recognized by the Government,” said Werthein, who thanked the Lula Da Silva government for its cooperation.
The minister received, together with Patricia Bullrich, relatives of Nahuel Gallo to tell them the latest official news. This Friday, a statement from the attorney general of the Bolivarian regime, Tarek William Saab, was also released, in which he ensures that the gendarme is detained in Caracas, accused of acts of terrorism.
“We are a little calmer with this communication that Nahuel went from being a missing person to a prisoner under trial, but we want to be very firm with respect to what the attorney general says in this communication merely arbitrary“Bullrich said.
“Nahuel Gallo entered with all the legal papers, did all the paperwork and did everything that needed to be done in the Bolivarian Republic. It was legal. What was not legal was how they kidnapped him at the border“He added and demanded his immediate release.
Although Venezuela publicly reported that Gallo is detained in Caracas, the Argentine government still does not have official confirmation of where the gendarme was housed, officials said.
The ministers once again accused former ambassador K Oscar Laborde of collaborating with the dictatorship. “Mr. Laborde works for the regime and we work for the Argentines to defend a citizen who is also a gendarme and has just been recognized, for the peace of his family and all Argentines, as a detainee accused of something he did not do.” said Bullrich.
Nahuel’s mother, Griselda Herediapresent at the conference, said through tears: “It is hard, as a mother, to be accused of something that you know is not the case. And I want to ask Mr. Maduro to do everything possible, to make sure the papers are clear, everything is legal; “Let them release him, let him come to Argentina.” “It is a situation that is not easy, it is very painful,” he added as best he could.
