Cuban Foreign Minister: The kidnapping of Venezuelans in El Salvador constitutes a flagrant violation of human rights

Published at: 29/03/2025 06:17 PM

The foreign minister of Cuba, Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla, described the kidnapping of Venezuelans in El Salvador and, with the permission of the United States, “constitutes a flagrant, massive and systematic violation of the human rights of our compatriots.”

During the 25th Political Council of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America - Peoples' Trade Agreement (ALBA-TCP), the Cuban diplomat called for mobilization “to prevent these actions from being used as a weapon of blackmail and political pressure against our nations.”

“The use of the Guantánamo naval base that the United States is usurping to imprison migrants is a brutal and illegal act that threatens the security and peace of Cuba and the region; kidnapping without jurisdiction or due process, without trial, defense and sanction by a competent court and sending Venezuelan migrants and any citizen to third countries by the United States is an atrocious pact and constitutes a cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment.

He added that under the capitalist design, “the natural resources, critical infrastructures and legitimate international relations that we develop with other countries that are under threat and those who do not submit to the imperial plan are exposed to aggressive extra-territorial persecution .”

In this regard, he reiterated that it is the duty of the Alliance to maintain “a system based on respectful relations, friendship and cooperation, free from threats and aggression. As well as a climate of peace, stability and justice in order to forever banish the use of threat and force (...) We must focus on strengthening the positions of the community, curbing positions that mean a reversal of what has been achieved and safeguarding its historical heritage.

Mazo News Team