Of all the government critics, few thought that Rocío San Miguel would be the one to disappear.
Ms. San Miguel, 57, has long been one of Venezuela’s best known security experts, a woman who dared investigate her country’s authoritarian government even as others fled.
But late last week, Ms. San Miguel arrived at the airport outside Caracas with her daughter, bound for what a relative called a short trip to Miami, when she was picked up by counterintelligence agents.
For four days, the only public information about Ms. San Miguel came from Venezuela’s top prosecutor, who claimed on social media, without providing evidence, that Ms. San Miguel had been linked to a plot to kill the country’s president, Nicolás Maduro.
Finally, on Tuesday evening, her lawyers said she had surfaced — and was being held in a notoriously brutal detention center.
Persons:
San, San Miguel, Nicolás Maduro
Organizations:
Venezuelan
Locations:
San Miguel, Caracas, Miami, Venezuela’s