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U.S. Deports Ex-Military Accused of Torture Under Maduro’s Government to Venezuela · Global Voices

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Miami, U.S.A., 26 Aug. The U.S. deported Rafael José Quero Silva, an ex-coronel of the Bolivarian National Guard (GNB) accused of participating in the arrest and torture of dozens of political opponents during the government of Nicolás Maduro. Quero Silva, arrested by the Immigration and Customs Control Service (ICE) in February 2025 in southern Florida, was military during the Maduro government, arrested by the U.S. last January and facing drug…

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The Immigration and Customs Enforcement Service executed the expulsion following an order from an immigration judge, after it was determined that the former military was linked to abuses including electric shocks, beatings, shootings and threats of rape

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Miami, U.S.A., 26 Aug. The U.S. deported Rafael José Quero Silva, an ex-coronel of the Bolivarian National Guard (GNB) accused of participating in the arrest and torture of dozens of political opponents during the government of Nicolás Maduro. Quero Silva, arrested by the Immigration and Customs Control Service (ICE) in February 2025 in southern Florida, was military during the Maduro government, arrested by the U.S. last January and facing drug…

(EFE). The United States deported to Venezuela Rafael José Quero Silva, an ex-coronel of the Bolivarian National Guard (GNB) accused of participating in the arrest and torture of dozens of political opponents during the government of Nicolás Maduro. Quero Silva, arrested by the Immigration and Customs Control Service (ICE) in February 2025 [...] The US entry deports to Venezuela former military Rafael José Quero Silva, accused of torture was fir…

The United States deported to Venezuela Rafael José Quero Silva, an ex-coronel of the Bolivarian National Guard (GNB) accused of participating in the arrest and torture of dozens of political opponents during the government of Nicolás Maduro. Quero Silva, arrested by the Immigration and Customs Control Service (ICE) in February 2025 in southern Florida, was military during the Maduro government, arrested by the United States last January and fac…

ICE deported ex-coronel Chavista Rafael José Quero Silva to Venezuela, accused of supervising the torture of at least 74 protesters in 2013, in Barquisimeto.

The U.S. Immigration and Customs Control Service (ICE) announced that it deported to Venezuela a former commander of Detachment 47 of the Bolivarian National Guard (GNB), whom they classified as "human rights rapist in his country of origin." According to the ICE statement, this is Rafael José Quero Silva, noted for his participation in the arrest and torture of political dissidents on the orders of Nicolás Maduro.

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El Impulso broke the news on Wednesday, August 26, 2026.
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