Aldo Roso

Aldo Roso Vargas is a Venezuelan master bricklayer and futsal coach. In the 2024 Venezuelan presidential election he served as campaign coordinator for the El Valle parish of Caracas for the Popular Will party. He was arrested on 4 July 2024, the same day the electoral campaign began, and was subjected to enforced disappearance for at least six days.

Detention Roso has worked as a master bricklayer and as a futsal coach. In the 2024 Venezuelan presidential election he served as campaign coordinator for the El Valle parish of Caracas for the opposition party Popular Will.

On 4 July 2024, Roso was arrested while travelling to a demonstration called in Caracas to mark the start of the electoral campaign. His family had no knowledge of his whereabouts for six days, until the attorney general appointed by the 2017 Constituent National Assembly, Tarek William Saab, announced his court appearance and accused him of being "linked to an attack on the electrical system". Popular Will denounced the detention and asked the international community to do "everything possible to put an end to this macabre tactic that only takes the freedom of innocent people". Article 231 of Venezuela's Organic Code of Criminal Procedure prohibits the detention of people over the age of 70, requiring instead alternative precautionary measures such as house arrest or transfer to a specialised centre. On 4 July 2025, Popular Will again called for the immediate release of Roso on the first anniversary of his detention, stating that his age legally barred the State from imprisoning him. The human rights organisation Justicia, Encuentro y Perdón reported the deterioration of Roso's health in prison. At that point, he was held at the Bolivarian National Police headquarters in La Yaguara, Caracas.

In January 2026, members of the Venezuelan diaspora in Mexico organised a demonstration in front of the Clock Tower of Parque Lincoln in Mexico City to demand the release of all political prisoners in Venezuela. Among the names included in the call was that of Aldo Roso. Roso was released on 8 February 2026 along with other political prisoners, after one year and seven months in detention.

Personal life Roso suffers from hypertension, type 2 diabetes, a varicocele, and a painful inguinal hernia. During his imprisonment, Roso's condition deteriorated, with at least two episodes of hematuria, as well as fever and weakness.