Palacios had her contract with the Philharmonic Orchestra canceled for having signed in the recall referendum organized by the opposition led National Assembly in 2017 and later detained for denouncing it on her Twitter account.
The clarinetist started to receive attacks and threats on social networks and during that year's protests her tweets began to be cited, where she expressed anger at the situation and at the abuse of the security forces, being accused of instigating violence.
[1] According to her relatives, the officials posed as teachers of the orchestra and told her that they would take her to the Victim Attention Center, located in the Miraflores presidential palace, and she was accompanied by her mother.
Bright white lights were kept turned on in the cell, preventing the detainees from sleep, and the room temperature was kept very low, which worsened her asthma.
[3][4][5] Palacios was charged with the crime of incitement for tweeting that she dreamed of President Nicolás Maduro's death and was detained in the National Institute for Female Orientation (INOF), in Los Teques, Miranda state, and was placed in a cell with common criminals, despite having a release order dated from 18 June.