'I still can't talk' - Argentine soldier Gallo says after release

Record ID: 2361247

  • Title: 'I still can't talk' - Argentine soldier Gallo says after release
  • Date: 4th March 2026
  • Summary: BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA (MARCH 4, 2026) (REUTERS) (SOUNDBITE) (Spanish) ARGENTINE GENDARME NAHUEL GALLO, SAYING: “But thank God, my mental strength, my day-to-day — thinking I have to be okay; I have a son whom I love with all my life — that was the only thing that kept me strong. Because it's true: it's not easy to be held incommunicado, it's not easy to have unjustly los
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  • Keywords: AMNESTY LAW ARGENTINA POLITICAL PRISONER PRISONER UNITED STATES VENEZUELA
  • Location: BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA & GUATIRE, VENEZUELA
  • City: BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA & GUATIRE, VENEZUELA
  • Country: Argentina
  • Topics: Fundamental Rights/Civil Liberties,South America / Central America,Government/Politics
  • Reuters ID: LVA003097904032026RP1
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text:  Argentine soldier Nahuel Gallo said on Wednesday (March 4) the Venezuelan prison where he was held in custody for over a year before his release was a place of "torture," but said he was not able to go into details.
    Gallo spoke at a press conference in Buenos Aires, where he arrived on March 2 after being released from El Rodeo I prison, near Caracas, on March 1.
    Gallo was welcomed by members of the National Gendarmerie, his wife and son, and ruling-party Senator Patricia Bullrich, among others.
    A member of Argentina's Gendarmerie, Gallo was detained in late 2024 in a case that aggravated tensions between Argentine President Javier Milei and Venezuela's then-President Nicolas Maduro, before Maduro was captured in January by the United States and transferred to New York.
    "We express our most sincere thanks to Venezuelan Vice President Delcy Rodriguez," the Argentine Soccer Association (AFA), one of the mediators, said in a statement, adding that it recognized "the Venezuelan Federation of Soccer (FVF) for facilitating the contact that allowed this effort.”
    (Production: Miguel lo Bianco, Claudia Martini, Anna Portella)
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