Rocío San Miguel

Rocío San Miguel (Caracas, Venezuela, 1966)[1] is a lawyer and human rights activist, specialising in military issues. She is also the president of the NGO Control Ciudadano, a civil association whose objective is the supervision of citizens in terms of national security, defense, and the armed forces.[2] She also supervises the commitments that the Venezuelan state has to the Rome Statute and the Inter-American Human Rights Commission.[3]

This article uses Spanish naming customs: the first or paternal family name is San Miguel and the second or maternal family name is Sosa.
Rocío San Miguel Sosa
San Miguel giving evidence at the Inter-American Court of Human Rights in 2017
Born1966
Caracas, Venezuela
NationalityVenezuelan
OccupationLawyer, activist

Harassment and defamation

Rocío San Miguel has suffered from constant harassment from groups hired by the Venezuelan government and from anonymous people, as well as from defamation through various methods on television, radio, and in print. On 18 January 2012, the Inter-American Commission of Human Rights issued cautionary methods of protection for San Miguel and her daughter.[3]

Months later, on 29 June 2012, the Bolivarian Intelligence Service (SEBIN) broke into the house of her brother, José Manuel San Miguel. On 25 March 2014, president Nicolás Maduro made defamatory statements in a national broadcast against San Miguel, and accused her of being involved in an attempted coup. A few days before, on 18 March 2014, a stranger approached her while she was in her vehicle and threatened her repeatedly. On 2 May 2014, the then-Minister for Interior and Justice, Miguel Rodríguez Torres, accused San Miguel of being a spy. San Miguel has also been repeatedly attacked by Diosdado Cabello on his television show Con el Mazo Dando.[3]

See also

References
  1. Castro, Maolis (22 February 2019). "Rocío San Miguel: "El goteo de las deserciones militares está erosionando la roca"". El País. Retrieved 23 April 2019.
  2. Vinogradoff, Ludmila (29 August 2017). "Rocío San Miguel, especialista venezolana en materia militar: «La revuelta militar se desinfló en Venezuela»". ABC. Retrieved 23 April 2019.
  3. "ROCÍO SAN MIGUEL". Defiendo DDHH. Retrieved 23 April 2019.
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