{"id":62804,"date":"2026-01-10T06:55:41","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T05:55:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=62804"},"modified":"2026-01-12T18:57:57","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T17:57:57","slug":"shameful-operation-to-hide-and-silence-five-of-maduros-political-prisoners-in-spain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2026\/01\/10\/shameful-operation-to-hide-and-silence-five-of-maduros-political-prisoners-in-spain\/","title":{"rendered":"Shameful operation to hide and silence five of Maduro's political prisoners in Spain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The complicity between Pedro S\u00e1nchez's socialist government and the socialist dictatorship of Venezuela led to a shameful episode yesterday.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2026\/01\/04\/only-four-european-rulers-condemn-maduros-capture-including-putin-and-sanchez\/\">Only four European rulers condemn Maduro's capture, including Putin and S\u00e1nchez<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2025\/12\/13\/spanish-socialism-and-the-maduro-dictatorship-a-desperate-attempt-at-mutual-salvation\/\">Spanish socialism and the Maduro dictatorship: a desperate attempt at mutual salvation?<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p><big>The media were unable to interview the newly released prisoners.<\/big><\/p>\n<p>This Friday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eldebate.com\/espana\/20260109\/alegria-barajas-llegada-presos-liberados-regimen-venezolano-debe-agradecerse-rubio-trump_372727.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">five political prisoners released by the Maduro dictatorship arrived in Madrid<\/a>. <strong>They are free thanks to the United States operation to capture the Venezuelan dictator<\/strong>, the same operation that some criticize, including S\u00e1nchez, perhaps because it threatens to topple <strong>a regime with which Spanish socialism has very murky relations<\/strong>, some of them with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2025\/12\/13\/spanish-socialism-and-the-maduro-dictatorship-a-desperate-attempt-at-mutual-salvation\/\">ramifications in several cases of political corruption<\/a> that are currently being investigated by the Spanish Justice system.<\/p>\n<p><big>The released prisoners did not speak to the media because \u201cthey have restrictions\u201d<\/big><\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, <strong>many journalists awaited the arrival of the five political prisoners at Barajas Airport<\/strong>. However, they were unable to obtain any statements from them. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vozpopuli.com\/espana\/aislan-en-barajas-a-los-espanoles-excarcelados-en-venezuela.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The released prisoners were escorted from their plane onto the airport tarmac<\/a>, instead of through the exit where journalists were waiting. <a href=\"https:\/\/elpais.com\/espana\/2026-01-09\/el-grupo-de-espanoles-presos-liberados-por-venezuela-aterriza-en-madrid.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The socialist newspaper El Pa\u00eds commented on the incident as follows<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\"<strong>The group met with Spanish authorities inside the airport and were then taken 'each to their respective destinations,'<\/strong> according to Sergio Contreras, the spokesperson for the family of Roc\u00edo San Miguel, the released lawyer and human rights defender. <strong>Contreras also explained that they have not made any statements because 'they are under restrictions,'<\/strong> although he did not specify the reasons or who asked them not to speak to the press.\"<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Some media outlets broadcast live for several hours<\/strong> to interview the released prisoners. One of these outlets was the pro-government radio station <strong>Cadena SER<\/strong>, which, after broadcasting for almost three hours from arrivals hall 10 at Terminal 4 of Barajas Airport, <strong>recorded Sergio Contreras's statements in this video<\/strong> (point 2:47:24, I have inserted it so that it starts playing at that moment):<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"665\" height=\"374\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/u_Fy0ySxRqo?si=M282WcG6Tfxk7qRy&amp;start=10044\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><big>A setup to prevent the released prisoners from making the government look bad.<\/big><\/p>\n<p>Hours before this happened, <strong>the S\u00e1nchez government was already taking credit for this release<\/strong>. <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/avtorresp\/status\/2009356278544666845\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Minister \u00c1ngel V\u00edctor Torres P\u00e9rez attributed it to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the socialist Jos\u00e9 Luis Rodr\u00edguez Zapatero<\/a>, who has been acting as a defender of Nicol\u00e1s Maduro's dictatorship for years. Obviously, <strong>the government risked ruining its propaganda operation if the released prisoners spoke to the media gathered at the airport<\/strong>. The solution? After a meeting with the authorities (that is, with government representatives), <strong>they were secretly taken out of Barajas Airport to prevent them from speaking, and were even warned that they were restricted from making statements to the media<\/strong>, according to Contreras.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, <strong>in this way the government prevented the media from reflecting the physical condition of those released prisoners<\/strong> after passing through the detention and torture centers of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2025\/01\/10\/never-forget-the-spanish-political-parties-that-are-accomplices-of-nicolas-maduro\/\">a dictatorship that has among its Spanish accomplices the parties of the government and their allies<\/a>. Let's remember, in case anyone has forgotten this fact or didn't hear about it, that in December 2024, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2024\/12\/12\/psoe-votes-against-demanding-dictator-maduro-to-end-repression-in-venezuela\/\">the PSOE and its allies voted against asking Maduro to end the repression in Venezuela<\/a>. This gives us an idea of \u200b\u200bhow little, if anything, this government has done for those five political prisoners and the many others who are still in Venezuela.<\/p>\n<p><big>How is it possible that the media isn't making a fuss about this?<\/big><\/p>\n<p>This silencing operation came to light thanks to Sergio Contreras. His statements brought it to light. However, <strong>it's difficult to understand why, in a democratic country, the media hasn't raised a scandal about what happened<\/strong>. A government complicit with a dictatorship has hidden five recently released political prisoners to prevent them from making S\u00e1nchez and his allies look bad, supposedly <strong>even telling them they are restricted from speaking to the media\u2014an order that violates Article 20 of our Constitution<\/strong>, which recognizes and protects the right to <em>\"freely express and disseminate thoughts, ideas, and opinions through speech, writing, or any other means of reproduction,\"<\/em> <strong>a right that <em>\"cannot be restricted by any type of prior censorship.\"<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>With the shameful propaganda and cover-up operation we witnessed yesterday, <strong>the Spanish left once again demonstrated that its political model is the Venezuelan dictatorship<\/strong>, an anti-democratic regime that has been committing electoral fraud for years to perpetuate itself in power,  <a href=\"https:\/\/provea.org\/publicaciones\/informes-anuales\/informe-provea-2023-situacion-de-los-derechos-humanos-en-venezuela\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a regime that has murdered more than 10,000 Venezuelan citizens<\/a>, torturing and subjecting thousands of people to degrading treatment for political reasons, such as the five who arrived in Madrid yesterday from Caracas. <strong>A democratic country like Spain does not deserve to be governed by accomplices of criminals like Nicol\u00e1s Maduro.<\/strong> What those accomplices deserve is to be brought to justice to answer for their support of a regime that has been violating the most basic human rights for years.<\/p>\n<p>---<\/p>\n<p><small>Image: Cadena SER.<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The complicity between Pedro S\u00e1nchez&#8217;s socialist government and the socialist dictatorship of Venezuela led to a shameful episode yesterday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10398],"tags":[17819,6548,693,2721,159],"class_list":["post-62804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spain","tag-angel-victor-torres","tag-nicolas-maduro","tag-psoe","tag-pedro-sanchez-castejon","tag-venezuela"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-11 20:53:02","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62804\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}