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A Mother's 16-Month Search for a Son the State Had Already Buried

Attorneys and human rights groups say a "chain of complicity" across Venezuela's security forces and judicial system concealed the fate of political prisoner Víctor Hugo Quero Navas for 16 months — while his mother searched alone

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The organization Justice, Encounter and Forgiveness (JEP) raised to 27 the number of political prisoners who have died in Venezuelan State custody since 2014. The most recent case is that of Victor Hugo Quero Navas, whose death was officially confirmed nine months after it occurred. According to the Ministry of Prison Services, Quero Navas, a 51-year-old merchant, died on July 24, 2025 in the Military Hospital Dr. Carlos Arvelo due to acute resp…

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The mother of political prisoner Victor Hugo Quero Navas, Carmen Teresa Navas, acknowledged on Friday the remains of her son after the exhumation process ordered by the Public Prosecutor's Office as part of the investigation into his death. Political prisoner Victor Hugo Quero Navas died on July 24, 2025 in state custody According to press reports, the remains were transferred to the Cemetery of La Guairita, where a private wake was held. The ex…

The remains of political prisoner Victor Hugo Quero Navas, who died in state custody in July last year, were buried on Friday at the Eastern Cemetery, in Caracas, according to journalist Maryorin Méndez. After Quero’s body was exhumed at the Parque Jardín cemetery, in Hoyo de la Puerta, the authorities handed the remains over to the mother of the political prisoner, Mrs Carmen Navas. According to the journalist Méndez, Mrs Carmen gave her son th…

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Civil society organizations and criminal lawyers insist that the investigation into the death of Victor Quero, who died in state custody, must follow the Minnesota Protocol, which establishes that independent bodies must be in charge of the Caracas expertise. Contradictions in the dates, silence, opacity and an active investigation [...] The entry #EnClaves The irregularities that come to light in the case of Victor Hugo Quero Navas appears fir…

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The NGO Venezuelan Prison Observatory (OVP) this Friday called for the "immediate" dismissal of the minister for the Prison Service, Julio García Zerpa, for the death of political prisoner Victor Hugo Quero Navas, after the government confirmed on Thursday that his death occurred ten months ago. "We demand the immediate dismissal of the minister for the [...] The entry OVP calls for the dismissal of the prison minister for the death of Victor Qu…

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laprensadelara.com broke the news on Friday, May 8, 2026.
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