The Argentine gendarme Nahuel Gallo, who was held captive for 448 days by the Chavista regime in Venezuela, gave an exclusive interview to La Derecha Diario in which he recounted the weight of isolation, the impact of returning to everyday life in Argentina, and the role that the pressure from the government of Javier Milei played in sustaining his case against the dictatorship of Nicolás Maduro.
In an exclusive interview now available on our YouTube channel, Gallo reconstructed an experience marked by isolation, arbitrariness, and the political use of foreign political prisoners by the Venezuelan regime.
One of the most powerful moments of the testimony comes when the gendarme described his difficult reintegration into everyday life after more than a year deprived of freedom. Gallo stated that he is still catching up on events that for any Argentine are part of the normal information flow, but which for him were frozen during his captivity.
“Two or three weeks ago, I found out that the boxer Locomotora passed away last year and I said wow,” he recounted, explaining that many things that his family or people take for granted he is discovering day by day, as if the country had continued to advance while his life remained halted inside a Chavista prison.
Gallo was also emphatic when referring to sectors of the Argentine left that still deny the existence of a dictatorship in Venezuela. “They should inform themselves a bit, listen a bit, and be empathetic with the Venezuelans who raise their voices,” he asserted, in a statement that directly targets those who downplay the crimes of Chavismo from the comfort of living in democracy.
During the interview, the gendarme revealed that he shared detention with people from up to 35 nationalities, including an Italian duke. He recounted that the mechanism of persecution was repeated with foreigners entering the country: their cell phones were checked, and if any critical content against the Venezuelan government was found, they were detained.
