India, May 18 -- Carmen Teresa, the mother of a Venezuelan political prisoner who died in police custody under former President Nicolas Maduro last year, has passed away. Venezuelan news outlet El Nacional reported that Carmen Navas has passed away. She was 81 years old.

Carmen Navas made headlines in the country and beyond as she searched for her son for months after he was arrested in January 2025 on terrorism charges. It was only on May 8 this year that Venezuela's prison ministry confirmed that Victor Hugo Quero Navas died on July 24, 2025.

The ministry has said that Victor Hugo Quero Navas died at a Caracas military prison of "acute respiratory failure secondary to pulmonary thromboembolism."

Carmen Navas searched for her son from...