At the inauguration of the 48th National Fair of the Cebu and its Crosses on Wednesday, on the grounds of the Francisco de Miranda Air Base in La Carlota, Greater Caracas, the head of State said that he had ordered an increase in diplomatic efforts to bring back all migrants from the United States.
“Tomorrow (Thursday), 306 compatriots will arrive via the Mexican airport,” he emphasized, adding that he had ordered Jorge Rodríguez, the special envoy for peace negotiations with the United States, to “increase efforts to guarantee return flights for all detained migrants.”
“We are going to return all detained migrants to give them respect, dignity, and support, so they can return to their homeland and families,” he stressed.
Maduro described what the United States and El Salvador governments did to the national migrants as cruel and unjust, stating that it was “a shameful, cruel act of forced disappearance and kidnapping.”
The president questioned under what judicial process all 238 Venezuelans who were migrants in the United States are being imprisoned in El Salvador, and commented that they had contacted Salvadoran human rights lawyers. In this regard, he revealed the creation in Venezuela of the Committee of Families and Victims of Kidnapped Migrants in El Salvador, where they have already contacted law firms and human rights defenders in that country.
In this regard, he explained that this group would lead the legal process defending their compatriots, while the Bolivarian Government and State would pursue all legal avenues to secure the release of each of the young men.
The president demanded justice from the Supreme Court of El Salvador and the magistrates and prayed “for the love of God and in the name of Óscar Arnulfo Romero.”
They committed no crime in the Central American nation and “must be quickly released and returned to their families in Venezuela,” he emphasized.
Maduro praised how the Venezuelan people took to Bolívar Squares across the country on Wednesday to demand the return of the kidnapped migrants, whom he said are in concentration camps prepared in that country in the best Nazi-style settings.
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