The foreign minister made this statement on the social media platform X, where he criticized these processes carried out on citizens “without trial, defense, or sanction from a competent court,” while also describing them as cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment.

The day before, the Venezuelan government called the kidnapping of migrants from the Bolivarian nation in El Salvador a crime against humanity.

Venezuelan Attorney General Tarek William Saab said they were previously criminalized and stigmatized without any basis for trial.

At a press conference, he explained that if no crime has been committed and deportation is appropriate, there is also a rule established by the United Nations, which “establishes dependence on that body for them to be brought to Venezuela,” he explained.

Saab denounced that this constitutes a crime against humanity because all the conditions contemplated, consulted, and recorded by the Rome Statute are present, so that “an action of this magnitude is classified as a crime against humanity.”

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