The wife of the detained Venezuelan police officer spoke: "The last time I heard Nahuel was asking me for help."

María Alexandra Gómez , wife of Nahuel Gallo, the gendarme kidnapped by Nicolás Maduro's regime for more than six months, spoke for the first time and said that the last time she heard her partner was asking for help, when he was being illegally detained. Gómez is in Argentina with her son Benjamín (2), after an operation by the Ministry of Security managed to get her out of Venezuela.

"Everything I know about Nahuel, I know unofficially because a person who was released from El Rodeo told me: 'Yes, (Nahuel) I met four months ago. We were in the same hallway, I ran into him in the courtyard,'" Gómez said in her first interview since her partner's illegal detention.

Argentine gendarme Nahuel Gallo (with whom she had Benjamín) was arrested on December 8, 2024, in San Antonio del Táchira, while attempting to enter Venezuela from the Colombian border. Since then, the Maduro regime has never provided details about his whereabouts and only shared photos of him as proof of life.

"That's the only thing I know unofficially, but the Venezuelan government never tells me anything," the woman insisted about her husband's whereabouts. She later claimed to have gone to El Rodeo , a maximum-security prison in Caracas, but was unsuccessful in her quest to find out if her husband was actually being held there.

"They asked me for my ID, and I showed it to them and said: 'I am the partner of Nahuel Agustín Gallo, an Argentine citizen. He was arrested on December 8, I know he is here.' And they asked me: 'But how do you know he is here? Why are you asking?' And I told them: 'Because the Attorney General (Tarek William Saab) told me,'" she explained, speaking with Telenoche .

And he pointed out the recurring evasions that the Maduro regime resorted to time and again: "'Wait a moment, we'll look for information,' they would tell me, and they would keep me there for an hour. Then they would come out and tell me : 'She's not there. Have a nice day.' I spent three months like that."

"Did you speak to Nahuel before he was arrested?" the interviewer asked.

"At 10:57 in the morning (on December 8, 2024), I'll never forget, I received that call from Nahuel, asking for help. My life and the world came crashing down on me, the worst had happened to me. 'But who's taking you?' I asked him. And that was it: I didn't hear anything else. He hung up on me. That was the last time I heard from Nahuel, and he was asking me for help . And that's what tortures me, every day," Gómez recalled.

Gallo had arrived at the Colombia-Venezuela border in a taxi. It was the driver of the vehicle who later contacted her, as Nahuel had used his phone to call her.

"The taxi driver called me and said, 'Ma'am, your husband is being taken away by a black van marked DGCIM (General Directorate of Military Counterintelligence). I don't know what to do, I don't know how to help you, but they told me to leave .'"

And she concluded, about her longings: "I haven't stopped looking for him, not for a second. I haven't stopped loving you. Every day I talk to your son about you. Every day I dream about you: that you're calling me, that you've been set free; that's the clearest dream I have."

Gallo's partner, imprisoned by the Chavista regime and without any communication with his family since last December, left Venezuela with their young son for Buenos Aires at the end of May in a secret operation.

María Alexandra Gómez García, born in Venezuela, and little Víctor Benjamín, born in Argentina and just two years old, set out for Buenos Aires from Bogotá, with a stopover in Panama. They initially left from their home in Anzoátegui and secretly crossed the border to Cúcuta by land.

It was thanks to an operation led by the Argentine government, through Security Minister Patricia Bullrich and her team. But they also received logistical support from third parties, including activist Elisa Trotta. By Tuesday night, they were already in Cúcuta, Colombia, in a situation that Washington closely monitored because the Colombian police had to let her leave with the documentation they had given her. By midday on Wednesday last week, they were already on their way to Buenos Aires.

For its part, information about Nahuel Gallo is constantly withheld by the Venezuelan government in response to diplomatic inquiries from Argentina, Brazil (the country that represents him since the Javier Milei and Maduro governments severed relations), and multilateral organizations. In early January, the regime leaked images of Gallo performing physical exercises in a prison complex, the location of which was not specified.