Within hours of being stopped on a rural road in Venezuela, former U.S. Marine Matthew Heath told a court Monday, he found himself naked and strapped to a wire mesh connected to a car battery that would shock him between questions from officers of the country’s military counterintelligence. A few hours later, at a different location, he was threatened with being raped with a nightstick if he did not give them the password to his satellite phone. BY Antonio María Delgado. Full Text -> MiamiHerald

Traducción de cortesía ->A las pocas horas de ser detenido en un camino rural en Venezuela, el exmarine estadounidense Matthew Heath dijo ante un tribunal el lunes que se encontró desnudo y atado a una malla de alambre conectada a una batería de automóvil que lo electrocutaba entre preguntas de oficiales de la contrainteligencia militar del país. . Unas horas más tarde, en otro lugar, lo amenazaron con violarlo con una porra si no les daba la contraseña de su teléfono satelital. Traducción al español -> Google Translación

The Venezuelan opposition, a group under the image of President Juan Guide, on Saturday condemned the military’s recent detention by the government of Nicolas Maduro and those considered “political prisoners”. “Our institutional officers of the Armed Forces who are imprisoned for upholding the Constitution are being tortured and subjected to the worst prison conditions,” Venezuelan opponent Julio Borges was quoted as saying. Full Text -> TheClevelandAmerican