Overview
- Gallo spoke by video and phone with Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado, who thanked him for denouncing prison conditions and vowed to fight until the last political detainee is freed.
- He called for the swift release of those still held at El Rodeo I, the prison where he spent 448 days, describing it as a place of psychological torture.
- He met relatives of Argentine lawyer Germán Giuliani, who remains in custody in Venezuela, and was asked to keep advocating for Giuliani’s release.
- Gallo was released on March 1 and returned to Argentina on March 2 on a flight arranged after mediation between the Argentine and Venezuelan football federations.
- Argentina’s Congress hosted an event honoring Machado and recognizing the wives of Gallo and Giuliani, while NGO Foro Penal reports 670 political‑prisoner releases in Venezuela since January 8.