[2] In 2016, after the opposition handed over to the National Electoral Council the signatures collected to convene a recall referendum of President Nicolás Maduro,[3] Cabello expressed on 4 May in the program that the directors of public bodies they signed were to leave.
[7][8] Foro Penal declared that the accused suspects were political prisoners and that they were convicted without evidence, and its director Alfredo Romero described the sentence as arbitrary.
[10] Some Venezuelan commentators have compared the use of illegally recorded private conversations on programs such as Cabello's to the practices in place in the East Germany as shown in the film The Life of Others.
[11] Amnesty International has denounced the way in which Cabello has revealed details on the travel arrangements of two human rights defenders in his program and how he routinely shows state monitoring of people that may disagree with the government.
[12] In 2022, Amnesty International released a report, along with the Venezuelan NGOs Center for Defenders and Justice (CDJ) and Foro Penal, identifying over 300 stigmatization events between January 2019 to June 2021.