After Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele released images of the arrival of the plane and the migrants, and the treatment they received before entering the Terrorist Confinement Center, the Bolivarian government launched a national and international campaign of denunciation.
The Venezuelan government’s appointee for the Peace Talks, Jorge Rodríguez, described the kidnapping of the compatriots as “a demonstration of infamy, arbitrariness, and barbarism” and called it a “crime against humanity.”
This barbarity can only be compared to “the darkest days humanity has ever experienced,” he affirmed, noting that they will denounce it at the UN, the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States, and all multilateral bodies in which Venezuela participates.
The goal, he said, is to bring Venezuelan migrants kidnapped in the Central American nation and seeking to return from the United States, a possibility that was ratified this Saturday with Rodríguez’s announcement of the resumption of flights from the northern country starting tomorrow.
“We will establish all possible mechanisms and send all necessary planes to the United States for their return home,” he emphasized.
The president of the National Assembly (Parliament), referring to the Alien Enemy Act of 1798, invoked in Donald Trump’s executive order, stressed that it can only be compared to the Nuremberg Laws of Nazi Germany.
In addition to constituting an “absolutely illegal action” that violates the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
President Nicolás Maduro was also categorical in announcing that his government will deploy all available mechanisms with friendly countries and the United Nations to protect Venezuelan migrants.
“Everyone will return safe and free to their homeland,” he asserted, warning that the US law is an aggression against Latin America and the Caribbean, and “an illegal expression of aggression against our nationality and the greatest act of enmity and injustice.”
Calling Venezuelan migrants criminals, terrorists, and murderers is “the greatest act of enmity and injustice ever committed by the United States against a people of Latin America and the Caribbean, and perhaps the world,” he emphasized.
As part of the actions undertaken to bring Venezuelans back, Maduro announced the preparation of documents to distribute to human rights bodies so they can be activated to protect Venezuelans.
Meanwhile, Rodríguez revealed that law firms in the United States and El Salvador have been hired to defend the kidnapped Venezuelans; Meanwhile, thousands of people gathered in the country’s Plaza Bolívar to sign their names in support of those they call “our brothers.”
As an additional measure, the Bolivarian government issued an alert to its citizens planning to travel to the United States about the risks and conditions they could face in that country.
The Foreign Ministry noted that in recent months there has been “an increase in arbitrary immigration control measures and harassment policies against Venezuelans” in the northern nation, such as arbitrary detentions, deportations without cause, confiscation of property, and deportations to third countries.
The Secretary General of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela, Diosdado Cabello, blamed opposition members María Corina Machado, Leopoldo López, Carlos Vecchio, Miguel Pizarro, Antonio Ledesma, and David Smolansky for promoting a campaign to force Venezuelans to emigrate abroad.
“It’s a lie that those sent to El Salvador are from the Aragua Train. It’s a lie,” he reaffirmed, discrediting the plan hatched by the far right.
Those who promoted the migration issue, then “came the demonization of Venezuelans abroad, and those who started talking about the Aragua Train,” were them, he insisted.
Cabello called on governments to respect “our migrants and comply with the standards established by the International Organization for Migration, because migration is not a crime.”
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