Overview
- On the one-year mark, the Foreign Ministry and Security Ministry issued a communiqué calling Gallo’s confinement illegal, arbitrary and a forced disappearance, and demanded his immediate release.
- Officials said Gallo remains incommunicado without family contact, consular access or due process, with no confirmed court presentation or appearance in official records.
- Buenos Aires detailed filings to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights seeking urgent measures, to the International Criminal Court for arbitrary detention and forced disappearance, and to UN human-rights bodies.
- Reporting indicates Argentina is also pursuing external leverage, exploring potential U.S. mediation under President Trump after previous U.S. efforts secured releases of detainees in Venezuela.
- Venezuelan authorities accuse Gallo of terrorism, espionage and destabilization plots—a claim Argentina rejects as baseless—while his wife renews public appeals and ex-detainees report seeing him in El Rodeo and describe him as holding firm.