Gabriela Ramírez

Ramírez was a deputy to the National Assembly for the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) and served as Venezuela's Ombudswoman between 2007 and 2014.^[1] During the 2014 protests, she asked to distinguish torture from "excessive or disproportionate use of force", arguing that torture happened only when used to extract confessions.^[2]

In 2017 Ramírez resigned as an advisor to the legal consultancy of the Supreme Tribunal of Justice after rejecting the call of the government of Nicolás Maduro for a National Constituent Assembly without requesting a prior popular consultation,^[3][4] like the 1999 Constituent Assembly did.^[1]

In 2019, her ex-husband posted a video on social media saying that Ramírez was in Spain and that she worked washing dishes.^[5]