They denounce the enforced disappearance of a former soldier who provided services to foreign media

Parents of former soldiers Rafael González, which provides logistical services to foreign media, announced today its disappearance, allegedly attributed to agents of the Bolivarian Intelligence Service (Sebin). Lawyer Andrea Santacruz denounced before the prosecution that it was a "forced disappearance".

"Yesterday, at 1 pm, he was arbitrarily arrested by unidentified officials," said Santacruz.He is deprived of liberty, against his will, without the State indicating where he is, what is his situationHis family members did not receive any communication from him, his lawyers did not trust him. Therefore, we believe that the extremes of the law should be considered a crime of enforced disappearance. "

Although it was reported to her as a CNN reporter in Español, the National Union of Newspaper Workers in Venezuela said that Rafael González was working for a company providing security for the CNN team in Caracas.

González was arrested by unidentified individuals while they were covering the airport of Maiquetía. On March 14, at 1 pm, his family do not know anything about him. Lawyer Santacruz told the media that they had gone to different police units without obtaining information about their destination.

His sister Mayra González told the media that she went to the Sebin headquarters in Plaza Venezuela and El Helicoide – the legendary detention and torture center of Nicolás Maduro's regime – without being able to obtain answers. on the fate of his brother.

On Friday afternoon, the human rights organization Provea denounced the raids of the González office, while Venezuelan activists reported on social networks that he had also raped the boy's home.

After the announcement of his disappearance, Venezuelan journalists began to denounce the fact that Nelson Guzmán Castellano, collaborator of González, also disappeared in the hands of the Maduro regime.

Yesterday, the Polish journalist Tomasz Surdel, of Gazety Wyborczej, was arrested and beaten by members of the regime's special forces. "They hit me with something hard, mostly in the face, I also got shots at the coast, when they finished and they shot me off the bag, I'm I saw the rifle barrel in front of my eyes, "said Surdel.

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) denounced the growing number of arrests of journalists in Venezuela and described as "very worrying" the degree of censorship exercised by the Venezuelan government.