Juan Guaidó's chief of staff to be detained in El Helicoide, Venezuela's most feared prison – 03/22/2019

It is at dawn on Thursday, March 22 that the government of Nicolás Maduro arrested and accused Roberto Marrero of terrorism, lawyer and chief of staff of the acting president of Venezuela Juan Guaidó. In press statements made the next day and which were collected by the newspaper The National, Marrero's lawyer, Joel García, badured that his accused would be held at El Helicoide, the prison which is run by the secret police of the regime and which is considered the largest torture center in the country.

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Marrero was arrested by the SEBIN, the political police of the Maduro regime. He was reported missing for hours until Interior Minister Néstor Reverol announced in a televised message that he was being detained for leading a terrorist cell that was planning to detain him. conduct targeted attacks to create chaos ".

"Roberto Marrero is currently in El Helicoide, we have not been able to see him, but we know for sure that he is there," García told the press, while denying that Marrero had any of the following. weapons and explosives of high caliber. "He does not have nail clippers in his possession, much less considering the way officials act with someone close to Guaidó. The act has been healthy and unethical, the lawyer is a victim of rights violations, "he said.

According to opposition MP Sergio Vergara and Juan Guaidó himself – who denounced Marrero's kidnapping on social networks – was the SEBIN who "placed" the weapons in Marrero's house ("Two rifles and a grenade") to justify his kidnapping. Vergara also noted that the lawyer had been arrested during an operation that had taken place at his home on Thursday morning at 3am. More than 15 police then broke the door of his house and pointed a gun at him.

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The Helicoide, named for its form, is a 13-storey building located at the top of La Roca Tarpeya Hill. It was built with the intention of being a commercial center between the 50s and 60s, when Venezuela took advantage of the opulence provided by the oil profits, but the project was destroyed. It remained closed for many years until the secretive Venezuelan secret police, SEBIN, set up its base of operations there. Since then, it is a place where both common criminals and political prisoners are housed, and which everyone calls "hell".