The United States on Sunday accused Venezuelan authorities of torturing a Venezuelan Navy officer to death, saying the act of “barbarism must stir us into action.”
In a statement, the State Department said Navy Officer Rafael Acosta Arévalo died while in the custody of Nicolás Maduro’s “thugs and their Cuban advisers.”
Arévalo had been brought to court on Friday to stand trial for being part of an alleged plot to assassinate Maduro. In a statement, Prosecutor General Tarek William Saab, who launched an investigation into Arévalo’s death, said the officer fainted in the courtroom and was rushed to a hospital, where he died the following day.
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