- Name: Maria Auxiliadora Delgado
- Position: Businesswoman
- Deprived of liberty from: The 19th of March of 2019
- Judgment: Awaiting trial
- Country: Republic of Venezuela
- Place of confinement: DGCIM
- Health condition: Severe health conditions
- Torture complaint: Subject to inhumane prison conditions and cruel treatment
María Auxiliadora Delgado, is a Spanish Venezuelan businesswoman who was arrested along with her husband Juan Carlos Marrufo, on March 19, 2019 by officials of the General Directorate of Military Counterintelligence (DGCIM). The officials raided their residence in the state of Carabobo without presenting an order, they were hooded and with long guns. They took valuables, computers and phones. After an hour and a half of registration and interrogation, the couple was arrested.
They were accused of financing terrorism and criminal association, for allegedly having participated in the so-called “drone case”, in which it was intended to commit a magnicide against Nicolás Maduro. The real reason for their detention was that the Venezuelan regime wanted Delgado’s brother to give himself in.
The Public Prosecutor’s Office did not find evidence to support the accusations and the court of the case issued a release order for the couple. They were released on October 2 of the same year and that same day they were arrested again by agents of the Special Action Forces (FAES). Under the same accusations and without filing an arrest warrant.
Currently, she is imprisoned in a basement of the DGCIM headquarters in Caracas, subjected for three years and seven months to constant torture and with a delicate state of physical and psychological health.
In January 2022, the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention requested his release, concluding that his imprisonment could be part of a pattern of crimes against humanity in the country.
The case of María Auxiliadora Delgado has been reported to the Ombudsman’s Office and the Attorney General’s Office of Spain. María Auxiliadora Delgado has been denied a consular visit, and diplomatic offices repeatedly
24 trial hearings have been suspended.
Sponsors
Name : Antonio Alarcó Hernández
Position: Senator of the Kingdom of Spain for Tenerife
Observations
Antonio Alarcó Hernández is a Spanish surgeon, politician and professor, member of the political party “Partido Popular” (PP). He has been Senator for Tenerife since 2008, working in the IX, X, XI, XII, XIII and XIV legislatures of Spain. He is a spokesperson in Health for the popular group in the Senate, as a member of the Permanent Council and Spokesperson in the Committee on Health, Consumer Affairs and Social Welfare.
Between 2007 and 2015 he was a counselor of the Cabildo of Tenerife, where he became Vice President. Since 2015, he has been the leader of the Popular Party in the Municipality of San Cristóbal de La Laguna, where he is a councilor in the City Council.
In addition, he is a professor of surgery at the University of La Laguna and a renowned doctor.
