International Anti-Fascist Chapter Colombia expressed its rejection of mass deportations and sanctions against Venezuela

Published at: 26/03/2025 10:57 AM

The International Anti-Fascist Colombian Chapter expressed its rejection of mass deportations and sanctions against Venezuela, according to the publication of the Vice President of International Affairs of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), Rander Peña, on his Telegram channel.

According to Peña's publication, the Anti-Fascist International issued a statement stating that these actions “are profoundly contrary to human rights, international law and the dignity of peoples.”

Below is the full text of the statement:

The International Anti-Fascist Colombian Chapter expresses its strongest rejection of the recent measures taken by the Donald Trump administration in the United States and the government of Nayib Bukele in El Salvador, which are profoundly contrary to human rights, international law and the dignity of peoples.

The forced transfer of more than 200 Venezuelan citizens to the maximum security prison Center for the Confinement of Terrorism (CECOT), under unfounded accusations of belonging to armed groups such as the Aragua Train, constitutes a flagrant violation of due process, the principle of non-refoulement and the minimum guarantees enshrined in international treaties and conventions.

These migrants were deported—not extradited, as official spokespersons have wrongly suggested—without judicial evidence, without adequate legal defense, and under a legal figure more than two centuries old used in warlike contexts: the Foreign Enemies Act of 1798.

Criminalizing migration, whether regular or irregular, is an unacceptable practice that violates the right to migrate, to seek asylum and not to be subjected to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment. The imprisonment of these Venezuelan brothers and sisters in conditions internationally condemned for their brutality is a modern form of repression that is no different from the authoritarian practices that we have historically combated.

Added to this is the recent announcement of the imposition of 25% tariffs on countries that import Venezuelan oil, by the same US government. This unilateral coercive measure not only constitutes economic aggression, but it also dismantles the hypocritical free-market rhetoric that the United States so much proclaims. This is imperialist blackmail, aimed at suffocating a sovereign people through hunger and economic blockade, in open contradiction with international law.

Today, March 25, 2025, the Colombian people, and especially the members of the Anti-Fascist International — Colombian Chapter, mobilized in front of the United States embassy in Bogotá, in active solidarity with the Venezuelan migrant people and in condemnation of these inhuman and degrading measures. Our voice will not rise alone: it joins that of the peoples of the Global South who no longer tolerate neocolonialism or imperial dictates.

We reaffirm our commitment to the internationalist struggle for human dignity, social justice and the self-determination of peoples. We demand the immediate release of migrants detained in El Salvador, the cessation of criminalizing migration policies and the lifting of all unilateral coercive measures against Venezuela.

Mazo News Team