20 Facts About Gilber Caro

Gilber Caro was born on 30 January 1974 and is a Venezuelan politician, activist and thrice political prisoner.

When he was in prison, Gilber Caro listened to the speeches of Hugo Chavez, who he resonated with because Chavez had been imprisoned around the same time and because he didn't like politicians, thinking they were "thieves".

Gilber Caro was first elected as an alternate deputy in 2015.

Gilber Caro was released on 3 June 2018, aged 43, having never had a trial.

In early March 2018, Gilber Caro was transported to another prison without the government informing anyone.

Gilber Caro was released in the second round of political prisoners after Maduro won re-election in 2018, all of them directly transferred to hospitals.

Gilber Caro was in the Fenix prison in Lara during a riot where 11 men died.

Gilber Caro announced that he wanted dialogue and reconciliation of the opposition Assembly and the government, to help release more political prisoners.

Four months after the releases, the military judge who had imprisoned Gilber Caro defected to Colombia after apologizing to him.

Gilber Caro has always fought for human rights, with his sister describing him as a "social activist", and particularly focused on political prisoners both before and after he was incarcerated himself.

When Juan Requesens was detained and humiliated, Gilber Caro made an impassioned speech in the National Assembly on 14 August 2018, where he stripped to his underwear and said that a man's dignity is not measured by his state of dress, as part of national underwear protests in solidarity with his fellow politician.

Gilber Caro later told Te Lo Cuento that "speaking in the first person" was a mistake, and that he meant all Venezuelans.

UN representative Ravina Shamdasani insisted that Gilber Caro was not brought before a tribunal in the 48 hours after his detention as required by Venezuelan law.

One of Gilber Caro's sisters suggested that they were not allowed to see him because the guards "did something to him".

Gilber Caro was received by delegates from the Grupo de Boston, though his condition is unknown.

Four other lawmakers were indicted in December; Popular Will consider that Gilber Caro's detention is part of a series of actions by the Maduro administration to force a boycott of the reelection of Juan Guaido as President of the National Assembly on 5 January 2020.

On 21 January 2020, Gilber Caro's lawyer confirmed that the lawmaker was detained by Venezuelan special police forces.

Gilber Caro was arrested on 3 September 2024, in Miami for fleeing the scene following a deadly hit-and-run crash.

Gilber Caro has been charged with leaving the scene of the crash.

Gilber Caro has a daughter, and he began acting as a paternal figure to his nephew after his sister's husband died.