politics
May 8, 2026
The "problematic" of residual Chavismo and the Quero Navas case
That residual Chavismo that survives in power, quintessence of what was sown by the coup plotter since 4-F, is a pack of hounds. Every pack of hounds feeds on blood. Someday there will be, at least, a street called "Víctor Hugo Quero", but that is no consolation today nor will it ever be. The entire account of this story is fragmented on social media; it is the merit and virtue of technology: immediacy and virality that set off alarms equally in Caracas as in Madrid or Buenos Aires. In fact, this May 8th, the country living abroad wakes up with this reality upon them, a living portrait of the inhumanity reached by the regime.
TL;DR
- Carmen Teresa Navas searched for over a year for her son, Víctor Hugo Quero Navas, who was likely murdered by his captors.
- Authorities, including the Public Defender's Office, allegedly lied to the mother, providing a document in October 2025 stating her son was incarcerated when he had already died in July.
- The article criticizes the language used by officials, such as referring to political prisoners as 'individuals deprived of liberty' and the situation of Víctor Hugo as a 'problematic'.
- The author draws parallels between the Quero Navas case and the story of Ed Horman, who searched for his son during the Pinochet regime in Chile.
- The piece attributes the horror not just to the perpetrators but also to the secondary elements: bureaucrats, scribes, and guards who facilitate or conceal such acts.