Relatives of detainees at Venezuela's maximum-security Rodeo I prison say officials have stepped up threats against political prisoners at a moment of heightened tension between Caracas and Washington, as a new sprawling report from Infobae has revealed. Rodeo I holds numerous foreign nationals in a separate wing, while most Venezuelan detainees are political prisoners or former military officers who fell out with the government.
"If there is a foreign intervention, we will make you disappear" is the threat that, according to the report, comes up repeatedly during interrogations and visits, a message that families say compounds already dire conditions and psychological pressure inside prisons.
