"It was horrible You don't know what is going to happen, recalled the 39-year-old opposition leader who was forced into exile after eventually being released."
"It was the Covid era and they told me that if I didn't give them the passwords [to my phone] they'd go to my grandma's house and give her Covid and she would die, Guevara said."
"They have a torture chamber in the middle of Caracas that they are closing up, the US president claimed as Maduro found himself behind bars after being abducted from a military base."
Freddy Guevara spent 34 days inside El Helicoide after masked men from the intelligence agency abducted him. He experienced hooding, interrogations, stress positions and psychological pressure with captors blasting salsa music. He was released and later forced into exile. During the Covid era he reported threats to coerce phone passwords and threats to infect relatives. Roughly 1,000 political prisoners remained in overcrowded, rat-infested cells. After US forces captured Nicolás Maduro, Venezuelan authorities announced the release of a significant number of Venezuelan and foreign prisoners, including Rocio San Miguel and Enrique Marquez, a move praised by Donald Trump.
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