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Detalle de un visado o registro ESTA con la anotación 'ESTA record reviewed' y 'excepted from PP restricting entry'
Erick Prometeo Media

The US now uses the Sebin's secret files to screen entries into the country

According to ABC, US authorities already hold documents once kept by Venezuelan intelligence services, among them the Sebin, and are using them to examine…

--- The context --- According to ABC, US authorities already hold documents that until this year were kept by Venezuelan intelligence services, among them the Bolivarian National Intelligence Service (Sebin), one of the main intelligence and political repression bodies of Chavismo. --- The facts --- ABC spoke with four people who describe similar situations: travel authorizations denied after years of entering the United States without difficulties, consular obstacles and questions about old personal or military files. Those documents, according to the sources consulted by the newspaper, are being used to examine applications for entry into the country, even of people who have been detached from the Armed Forces for decades. --- The positions --- Journalist David Placer said this week, at NTN24's Press Club, that Washington has assumed part of the Sebin's operational supervision, both in Caracas and in other cities, and that certain surveillance and political persecution operations are being subjected to US authorization. --- What remains unknown --- According to sources in Washington cited by ABC, this opening stems from a decision by Diosdado Cabello himself, who seeks to improve his situation before US justice. The source does not specify what volume of documents changed hands or since when Washington has been using them. --- Unanswered questions --- Which specific files are already in the possession of the United States? How does their use affect people detached from the Armed Forces for decades? How far does the US operational supervision over the Sebin described by David Placer reach? --- EPM analysis --- The central fact is not only the access to the files: it is their immediate use in entry decisions, and the claim that Sebin surveillance and political persecution operations would pass through US authorization. 📌 EPM Take: In EPM's view, that Washington screens entries with files once kept by the Sebin changes the lives of concrete people: four testimonies gathered by ABC speak of denied trips and questions about old records, even after decades outside the Armed Forces. The supervision described by Placer may limit political persecution, but it demands clear guarantees on how those files are used and who answers for errors that affect the innocent.
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