Óscar Castañeda is a Venezuelan opposition activist. He was arrested in April 2024 in Portuguesa state alongside two other activists, after a campaign rally for opposition leader María Corina Machado, and held for more than a year and a half before his release in early 2026.
Capacho Viejo is a town in Táchira State, Venezuela, and the capital of the Libertad parish in Libertad Municipality. It was founded on 27 July 1602 by Antonio Beltrán de Guevara, then captain-governor of Tunja. The town's history was profoundly affected by a powerful earthquake on 18 May 1875, which destroyed most of the original settlement; the surviving population subsequently founded the neighbouring town of Capacho Nuevo at an estate known as El Blanquizal. According to projections of the National Institute of Statistics, the town had 31,275 inhabitants in 2023.
Luis Enrique Camacaro Meza is a Venezuelan opposition politician and the regional coordinator of Vente Venezuela in Yaracuy state. He was detained on 23 January 2024 in connection with the so-called "White Bracelet" conspiracy case against María Corina Machado's presidential campaign and held without external contact for about 27 days before being located at the El Helicoide detention centre in Caracas. Camacaro was released on 8 February 2026 in a group exchange of political prisoners.
Emirlendris Carolina Benítez Rosales (born 26 January 1981) is a Venezuelan merchant who has been described as a political prisoner. In 2018, while pregnant, she was detained and accused of involvement in the attempt on the life of Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro. According to her family and human rights organisations, she has been subjected to torture during detention to the extent of suffering a miscarriage, and her pretrial detention has exceeded the three-year maximum established by Venezuelan law.
The non-governmental organisation Foro Penal has classified Benítez as a political prisoner, and in 2022 the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention of the United Nations (UN) called for her immediate release, having concluded that her detention is arbitrary.