Foreign Minister Gil highlights efforts before the International System to rescue kidnapped migrants

Published at: 03/04/2025 04:08 PM

The Minister of Popular Power for Foreign Affairs, Yván Gil, highlighted this Thursday the efforts of the Bolivarian Government to rescue Venezuelan migrants kidnapped in the United States (USA) and in the maximum security prison in El Salvador, known as the Center for the Confinement of Terrorism (CECOT), under false criminal charges.

During his speech at the International Seminar “The Criminalization of Migration and the Human Rights of Migrants”, the Venezuelan Foreign Minister detailed all the efforts made by the Executive, headed by President Nicolás Maduro, “to denounce the world, to the United Nations, to the International System, to what he calls himself the International community of this humiliation to which our compatriots have been subjected”.

He referred to the more than 240 Venezuelan migrants kidnapped in the Central American country, and emphasized that “it has been intended to become an element of threat against the entire Venezuelan people, of stigmatization of our kindness, of our identity.”

In this regard, Gil emphasized that “the Venezuelan Government has been firm in denouncing this situation to the international community, denouncing the aggressors, denouncing the government of the United States, its Secretary of State, the ineffable Marco Rubio, who designed a policy appealing to a law of the 19th century, a law that criminalizes migration, being the son of emigrants.”

He said that the US Administration of Donald Trump violates the laws of the North American country, as well as international law and the human rights of migrants, who were transferred “without any kind of trial, without any kind of accusation and of course without any evidence to detain them, it is a Nazi-style concentration camp.”

Strong people and diplomatic work

Faced with these illegal actions, the diplomat praised the unity and solidarity of the people. “Today it's about stigmatizing the Venezuelan population to use it as a weapon to attack the Bolivarian Revolution, and like everything they have done against the Bolivarian Revolution, what they have done is to find a united people, a strong people, a supportive people, a people that come together and that presents itself to the world as a single block demanding liberation, as we are going to achieve it.”

The minister reiterated that the Head of State has taken steps through the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC), and sent communications and has communicated with the Secretary General of the United Nations, with the High Commissioner for Human Rights, with the World Organization for Migration, with the representative of the United Nations Organization for the Care of Refugees and with different leaders of regional forums.

“We have been doing diplomatic work to raise awareness. Unfortunately, until now we have had 19 days of silence in these organizations,” he criticized, while waiting for them to “analyze the situation to give a strong response in the coming days. This is what we hope for, because we must assume it with responsibility and courage. Here, not only the rights of Venezuelans are being violated, the rights of Latin Americans, the rights of migrants in general, are being violated,” he stressed.

Mobilization and Hope

Gil insisted that in the face of this damage and threat of great proportions against migrants, global mobilization is necessary, so I express his faith, hope and trust “that there will be an important reaction from the international system to condemn these events. And, beyond that, we are confident that justice will prevail and that very soon we will have our migrants back.”

He said that very soon the rights of kidnapped Venezuelans will be restored. “While this is happening with the migrants who are unjustly detained there in Nazi concentration camps in El Salvador, the Plan Back to the Homeland is also still working. Today hundreds of migrants are returning from Mexico, yesterday from the United States, we are going to continue working on this,” he said.

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