The details of the Venezuelan opposition member are forced to rise from the Maduro regime

Pedro Urruchurtu spoke on Friday at the United Nations Human Rights Council of what he had endured in the hands of the Nicolás Maduro regime while being forced to take shelter for more than 400 days. Urruchurtu and four other members of the Venezuela political opposition were released in May in a successful American rescue mission.

He and his colleagues were actually trapped inside the Argentine Embassy in Caracas – where opposition members fled and were sheltered due to the diplomatic status of the embassy.

The opposition figures were besieged by the regime forces which made their lives extremely difficult because of their control of public services. Urruchurtu told the council that he had endured “five months without electricity, three minutes of water every ten days, rifles pointed on the windows and dogs formed to bite; only because those in power considered this to direct the campaigns of Maria Corina Machado in the opposition primary and Edmundo González in the presidential elections.”. “”

Humberto Villalobos, Pedro Urruchurtu and Magallí Meda, five Venezuelan opposition personalities, hold a press conference after spending a year of forced detention at the Argentina Embassy in Caracas, May 24, 2025, in Washington, DC, DC (Alex Wroblewski / AFP via Getty Images)

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“Today, I am here despite the state, and not thanks to that, because if it was up to the task, I would miss or dead,” said Urruchurtu.

The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, told council that since May 1, 2024, the human rights situation in Venezuela was only worse. The people have known “arbitrary detentions, violations of the regular procedure and forced disappearances, in the midst of continuous allegations of torture and ill -treatment”.

Türk revealed That his office had documented 32 people – including 15 teenagers – who said they had been tortured and mistreated in detention. He also noted that 28 people had been subject to an applied disappearance after the country’s legislative elections, which took place in May 2025. He said that their fate was unknown and that at least 12 of them were foreign nationals who “did not have access to consular assistance”.

The Human Rights Council at the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, February 26, 2025. (Reuters / Denis Balibouse)

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“The world should no longer divert the brutal reality from what Venezuela in the past has become. Nicolás Maduro and its executors manage a criminal narco-terrorist dictatorship which imprisoned political opponents, the torture dissidents and the crushes all hope of liberation. Exile, as a esclaves of the regime,” told Fox News Digital, Executive Director executive of the UN.

Venezuelan members of the opposition Humberto Villalobos, Omar Gonzalez, Claudia Macero, Magalli Meda and Pedro Urruchurtu Noselli are illustrated at the Argentine Embassy, ​​Caracas, Venezuela, where they sought Asylum, after the Argentinian diplomats were expelled from Venezuela, August 2024. (Reuters / Leonardo Fernandez Viloria)

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Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced in a position on X on May 6 that the opposition members, including Urruchurtu, had been rescued in “a specific operation” and brought to the United States a few weeks later, Rubio met with the members of the opposition published. State Department spokesperson Tammy Bruce said This Rubio had congratulated the members of the Venezuelan opposition for their “bravery in the face of the implacable repression and tyranny of Maduro”.

Neuer also expressed his gratitude for the Trump administration and Rubio’s actions, which led to the release of Urruchurtu.

“Thank you to the Trump administration and the Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, for their essential role in the Liberation solution of Pedro and the release of his comrades.