Nahuel Gallo, an Argentine border guard who spent 448 days imprisoned in Venezuela under Nicolás Maduro's government, has given his first televised account of the ordeal, describing beatings and pepper-spray attacks at El Rodeo I (one of Venezuela's most feared prisons, on the outskirts of Caracas) after officials found his name search for "Maduro" on his phone. Detained in December 2024 while attempting to cross into Venezuela from the Colombian border city of Cúcuta to visit his family, he was freed on 1 March 2026 as part of a prisoner-release process under interim President Delcy Rodríguez, with his repatriation brokered through South American football bodies including CONMEBOL. Gallo has since joined a federal criminal case in Argentina against Maduro and other senior figures for crimes against humanity, while Argentina's Foreign Ministry continues to press for the release of other nationals still held in Venezuela on political grounds.