Overview
- Venezuelan parliamentary president Jorge Rodríguez announced on Jan. 8 the release of political prisoners, including foreigners, prompting new hopes for Gallo’s case.
- Argentine officials say Gallo, a noncommissioned officer of the national gendarmerie, has been held since December 2024 without judicial notification or consular access.
- His family reports he was stopped at a border control and informally linked to intelligence activities, after which all contact ceased.
- Subsequent reporting identified his transfer to El Rodeo I, known as CESMAS, a maximum-security site that human-rights groups describe as operating under military and counterintelligence control.
- His wife, María Alexandra Gómez, says complaints have been filed with international bodies and that their young son continues asking about his father.