- Name: Juan Carlos Monasterios Vanegas
- Position: Former senior sergeant of the NG
- Deprived of liberty from: August 4th, 2018
- Judgment: 30 years of imprisonment
- Country: Venezuela
- Place of confinement: El Helicoide
- Health condition: Severe weight loss
- Torture complaint: Subject to torture and inhumane prison conditions
Monasterios was a senior sergeant of the National Guard that requested to be discharged after the citizen protests of 2017.
After being linked to the drone attack suffered by President Nicolás Maduro during a military parade in 2018, he was detained and subjected to all kinds of tortured by DGCIM officials, on the 4th of August, 2018, specifically by Gramko Arteaga, Abel Angola Blanco Hurtado.
His mother was kidnapped on several occasions to force him to say that the parlamentarian Juan Requesens was the one that gave him the contact to enter Colombia. Juan Carlos Monasterios is among those sentenced to 30 years. The Venezuelan court sentenced him with the charges of the crimes of terrorism and organized crime, in the same way to 17 people, including the opposition leader Juan Requesens.
Sponsors
Name : Juan Pablo Garcia
Position: Member of the National Board of Vente Venezuela
Observations
Juan Pablo García Canales is a deputy of the National Assembly for the state of Monagas. He has been exiled in Colombia since 2019, after on August 12 of that year the Supreme Court of Justice (TSJ) of the government of Nicolás Maduro accused him of committing eight crimes to raid his parliamentary immunity.
García is a lawyer graduated from the Central University of Venezuela (UCV) and was re-elected in the 2015 parliamentary elections with the Unity card. On the second chance, he obtained 159,642 votes. He participated in the Permanent Family Commission and in the vice-presidency of the Permanent Commission of Worship and Penitentiary Regime. In the 2010 elections he was elected as a listed deputy with the Democratic Action Card (AD) and obtained 116,909 votes, 44,054 of them from his party.
He is currently a member of the national board of the Venezuelan political party Vente Venezuela.
