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“Don’t forget them”: Nahuel Gallo asked for freedom for political prisoners in Venezuela

Nahuel Gallo, an Argentine gendarme detained in Venezuela for 448 days and released in March, used his participation in the Buenos Aires Half Marathon to call for the release of political prisoners in Venezuela.

Tracked question

How many political prisoners are held, and is the trend improving? · Full question dossier →

linked by topic terms: political prisoners, presos politicos

What would settle it: Foro Penal's monthly count falling for two consecutive months with named releases.

Evidence state: insufficientas of Sep 13, 2026changed from emerging → insufficientnot yet linked to a tracked event object in our corpus — no source count yet

Nahuel Gallo was detained in Venezuela for 448 days and released in March 2026.

Gallo participated in the Buenos Aires Half Marathon and posted a message on social media calling for freedom for political prisoners.

He mentioned Colombian citizens detained in Venezuela, some approaching two years without due process, accused of terrorism, espionage, conspiracy, and financing terrorism.

Gallo described Venezuela as a 'dictatorship' that keeps political prisoners detained.

AI-assisted synthesis anchored to a real VeraVadis-analyzed source. Cleared by VeraVadis's automated editorial gates on 2026-08-24 — not reviewed by a human editor. Archive piece: published under our earlier method. It does not carry the per-claim evidence chain — who reported it first and who is echoing whom — that our current pieces carry. The source link and the date are the original ones.