Overview
- Gustavo Gabriel Rivara says he was intercepted at a bus station in Barinas while trying to return to Colombia and held solely for being Argentine.
- He portrays El Helicoide as an underground bunker without natural light, citing filthy conditions, cameras even in bathrooms, and routine sleep disruption.
- Rivara reports being cut off from contact for months and seeing a judge only about ten months after his arrest, when he was accused of treason.
- He alleges foreign detainees are presented to SEBIN to be used as diplomatic bargaining chips with other countries.
- Argentina deemed his case an arbitrary detention; Rivara and Caracas resident Roberto Baldo were released recently, while Nahuel Gallo and Germán Giuliani remain in custody.