Rocío San Miguel

Rocío San Miguel is a lawyer with postgraduate studies in security and defence, a human rights activist, and president of Control Ciudadano para la Seguridad, la Defensa y la Fuerza Armada Nacional, a Venezuelan armed-forces oversight organisation.

In public service in her country, she has worked as an analyst and researcher for the National Security and Defence Council, Legal Advisor to the National Borders Council, Director General of the Office of the Ministry of Infrastructure, and Associate Advisor to the Centre for Advanced Military Studies. 

San Miguel has been a professor of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights at Venezuela’s Naval War College, Air War College, and National Guard Military Academy. She has also taught Security Studies at the Universidad Metropolitana and lectured on the law of armed conflict at the Graduate Studies Centre of the Faculty of Legal and Political Sciences at the Universidad Central de Venezuela.

After two years of wrongful imprisonment (2024–2026), she is currently focused on the process of institutionalisation, coexistence, and democratic peace in Venezuela, developing proposals in the areas of security and human rights.