The nightmare of the Spanish-Venezuelan Rocío San Miguel, a prominent figure in civil society, has only just begun. The serious accusations leveled against her by the Chavista Attorney General’s Office, accusing her of participating in an alleged assassination attempt against Nicolás Maduro, have resulted in an anti-terrorist judge ordering her unconditional imprisonment in one of the most notorious places on earth: Helicoide, the headquarters of Nicolás Maduro’s political police in Caracas. Helicoide is a sinister place of confinement that is notorious for torture, mistreatment, and extreme cruelty, as documented in United Nations reports.

“We need to know the state of her physical condition. We demand her immediate release and an end to the unleashed Bolivarian fury,” demanded Lexys Rendón, director of the Peace Laboratory, who was surrounded by human rights activists. This group of women and men have an indomitable spirit and have earned a special place in the fight for freedom in Venezuela.

Local lawyers will be filing an appeal on behalf of San Miguel and her five relatives to challenge the imprisonment. As the president of Citizen Control for Security, Defense, and the National Armed Forces, San Miguel is charged with the alleged crimes of terrorism, treason, and conspiracy, unlike her former partner, Alejandro González, who is accused of revealing military secrets and is also being held in the dreaded Caracas headquarters of the General Directorate of Military Counterintelligence (DGCIM).

Tarek William Saab, Maduro’s prosecutor, has attempted to explain his reasons for accusing San Miguel in a plot that, he claims, “sickens me,” but has failed to present any evidence. He stated that San Miguel had the mission, revealed by the detained soldiers, to communicate the progress of the terrorist actions in real time. This refers to ‘Operation White Bracelet’, an alleged attack planned against the 21st Brigade of the Bolivarian Army Infantry, where weapons were allegedly going to be obtained to target Governor Freddy Bernal and then Maduro.

Saab has claimed that through “telephone extractions,” they have discovered extremely delicate evidence linking San Miguel to a campaign against the Bolivarian National Armed Forces (FANB), in which she admits her role in conspiring in Europe and the United States.

The other four relatives of San Miguel have been conditionally released. One of them is Miranda Díaz San Miguel, Rocío’s daughter, who also has Spanish nationality and lives in Madrid. The young woman, 24 years old, disappeared for three days after being deceived by DGCIM agents at the airport.

The judge has imposed precautionary measures on Miranda, preventing her from returning to Madrid and making public statements, and she is required to appear in court periodically. The same limitations have been imposed on her father, Víctor Díaz, and her uncles Miguel Ángel and Alberto San Miguel.

“The entourage of Rocío San Miguel has attempted to cover up evidence,” accused the prosecutor, who has now targeted human rights activists as well.

First, it was one of Maduro’s ministers, and now Saab himself, who have threatened NGOs such as Provea and Amnesty International, which have expressed support for San Miguel. The head of the Public Ministry deemed their actions as criminal, but his attempts to justify the more than 100 hours that San Miguel was held in forced disappearance have been unsuccessful. Such forced disappearances have been a common practice of the Bolivarian regime, as noted in UN reports.