Venezuela: Mother of political prisoner Víctor Quero dies days after identifying his exhumed body

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Carmen Teresa Navas, the mother of political prisoner Víctor Hugo Quero, passed away shortly after identifying her son’s exhumed body in Caracas, shedding light on Venezuela's troubling human rights situation. Her death marks a significant and somber chapter in the ongoing narrative of political repression in the country.

Carmen Teresa Navas, 83, the mother of Venezuelan political prisoner Víctor Hugo Quero, died on Sunday in Caracas, days after she had identified the exhumed body of her son, who had been buried in secret nine months earlier. The octogenarian, who had been hospitalized in recent days, was seen this same week alongside her relatives at the large memorial mass for her son. Physicians have not officially reported the clinical causes of her death. Her passing closes one of the most disturbing episodes in the country's recent human rights record.