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Almagro demands that the Fuerte Guaicaipuro torture centre be shut down and all political prisoners released

Luis Almagro, former OAS Secretary General, demanded via X that the Fuerte Guaicaipuro torture center be closed and all political prisoners, both military and civilian, be released.

Tracked question

How many political prisoners are held, and is the trend improving? · Full question dossier →

linked by topic terms: political prisoners, presos politicos

What would settle it: Foro Penal's monthly count falling for two consecutive months with named releases.

Evidence state: insufficientas of Sep 13, 2026changed from emerging → insufficientnot yet linked to a tracked event object in our corpus — no source count yet

Luis Almagro demanded closure of Fuerte Guaicaipuro torture center and release of all political prisoners.

Almagro welcomed recent releases including Jesús Rafael Ramos López and nine military personnel.

Almagro called for immediate release of Víctor Eduardo Soto Méndez, Geomer Martínez Natera, Andrés Paredes Soler, Jefferson Dos Ramos, and Leandro Chirinos Parra.

Foro Penal reports over 160 military political prisoners in Venezuela.

AI-assisted synthesis anchored to a real VeraVadis-analyzed source. Cleared by VeraVadis's automated editorial gates on 2026-08-17 — not reviewed by a human editor. Archive piece: published under our earlier method. It does not carry the per-claim evidence chain — who reported it first and who is echoing whom — that our current pieces carry. The source link and the date are the original ones.