Maduro is ordered in the US to compensate tortured Americans

According to information from the EFE agency, the others held responsible are the current Venezuelan Minister of the Interior and Justice, Diosdado Cabello, and of Agriculture, Vladimir Padrino (former Minister of Defense); Maikel José Moreno Pérez, former president of the Supreme Court of Justice; Néstor Luis Reverol, former Minister of Justice and former commander-general of the Bolivarian National Guard (GNB); and Tarek William Saab, former attorney general of Venezuela.

According to the Associated Press agency, among the authors of the case are Jerrel Kenemore, Jason Saad and Edgar Marval, released in 2023 after months of detention in Venezuela in a prisoner exchange that involved Saab, appointed as Maduro’s front man.

After the capture of the then dictator in an American military operation, Saab was sent back to the United States this year to face money laundering charges.

The American citizens alleged that they were subjected to physical and psychological torture, such as electric shocks, stressful positions and beatings, during the period they were imprisoned in Venezuela.

Maduro’s replacement, interim dictator Delcy Rodríguez, was also denounced, but was not tried because her lawyers presented a defense in April requesting the dismissal of the complaint against her, arguing that, as head of state recognized by the United States, she has immunity against civil actions in the country.

In early January, the United States carried out a military operation in Caracas that resulted in the capture of Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, so that they could face charges related to narco-terrorism in American federal court.

Furthermore, the former dictator is being investigated in Florida on charges of participating in a money laundering scheme, and at the end of June he was the target of a complaint in the US District Court for the Eastern District of New York, in which the families of five murdered Venezuelan men accuse the Chavista of ordering the deaths.