Argentine Gustavo Rivara Told of the Nightmare that Lived in the Helicoid, the Most Atrocious Prison in the Chavista Regime: “I Thought I Was Dying”

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He is one of the Argentines who were arrested by the dictatorship of Venezuela and was released on February 2. How he lived the detention of Nicolás Maduro and his days inside the illegal detention center

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Gustavo Rivara regained his freedom on February 2 after months of detention in the Caribbean country. After leaving, he described psychological torture, extreme dirt and the use of foreign prisoners as a “currency of change” by the government. Read more

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Gustavo Gabriel Rivara, an Argentine citizen recently released from El Helicoid prison in Caracas, denounced that this detention centre operates as a detention space for innocent people without judicial process. Rivara, whose arrest in 2024 was described as arbitrary by the Argentine Government, described an environment of precariousness characterized by dirty and decrepit facilities. According to his testimony, living conditions are so severe t…

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Argentine citizen Gustavo Gabriel Rivara recounted the conditions in which he lived during the 10 months he was imprisoned in El Helicoid, headquarters of Sebin, in Caracas, The place is qualified as a torture center by international organizations and Chavismo promised to close it, as part of the “new political moment” proclaimed by Delcy Rodríguez after the capture of Nicolás Maduro. “I thought he was going to die in prison,” Rivara told Argent…