Overview
- Machado, the 2025 Nobel Peace laureate, said on X she received reports of direct, repeated threats of extrajudicial execution against detainees at El Rodeo near Caracas.
- She attributed the threats to officials from state security organs and called them crimes against humanity and grave breaches of international humanitarian law.
- Her appeal pressed for immediate protection for political prisoners, access for independent observers, and urgent diplomatic pressure from allied governments.
- The Venezuelan Prison Observatory reported testimonies that guards warned prisoners they would be used as human shields in the event of a U.S. intervention.
- The allegations intersect with the detention of Argentine gendarme Nahuel Gallo and his partner’s consular complaint, while Caracas has not publicly responded as U.S. naval moves and sanctions heighten tensions.