Around 100 riot police tried to prevent access to dozens of activists, who were waving Venezuelan flags and chanting the slogan “Respect migrants, they are not criminals!”

Former Health Minister Nila Heredia emphasized that this was a peaceful march in solidarity with Venezuelans and all Latin Americans, whose human rights are being violated by Donald Trump’s administration in complicity with El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele. She added that this is a capitalist business based on torture and human rights violations, which will generate six million dollars a year in revenue for the Salvadoran government.

Valentina Enríquez, a political science student, spoke to Prensa Latina. She asserted that it was a nonpartisan, peaceful march in which participants spoke out against what the United States government is doing against Venezuelan migrants under Trump’s orders. “What the media, serving the US oligarchy, doesn’t say is that there is a blockade with more than a thousand reprisals that Washington calls ‘sanctions’ against the Venezuelan people, and that’s why many people choose to migrate,” she said.

Enríquez recalled that immigration processes are supported by the Human Rights Charter; however, the White House treats these people as criminals, in complicity with Bukele in the context of the expansion of international fascism. “We young Bolivians express our permanent repudiation, because the police forces deployed anywhere in the world obey the interests of imperial power, which is the true enemy of the people.”

The interviewee commented that children, women, youth, and people of all ages participated in the march because it is a time to show solidarity with our brothers and sisters on the continent who are subjected to violence, treated like criminals, and some who are even missing.

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