President Maduro stressed to the Human Rights Commissioner the need for the UN to support the rights of Venezuelan migrants

Published at: 28/03/2025 02:53 PM

The President of the Republic, Nicolás Maduro, held a telephone conversation with the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk.

The information was released through a defense statement, published by the Minister of Information, Freddy Ñáñez.

Below is the full text of the statement:

The President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro Moros, held a telephone conversation with the Secretary General of the United Nations, António Guterres, last Wednesday, March 26, 2025. Later, today, March 28, he maintained a second communication, this time with the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk.

In both conversations, President Maduro emphasized the need for the United Nations System to make a firm commitment to guaranteeing the rights of Venezuelan migrants, ensuring compliance with international law, especially that which protects people in
conditions of mobility.

This request aims to ensure the immediate and unconditional release of 238 compatriots unjustly detained in concentration camps in El Salvador, where they have been imprisoned without any kind of judicial process and deprived of their right to defense.

The Head of State told both officials that these actions evoke the persecution suffered by the Jewish people under the Nazi regime of Adolf Hitler during the Second World War.

He recalled that these crimes not only marked one of the darkest pages in history, but also led to the collapse of the international order of the time and the disappearance of the League of Nations, the forerunner of the current United Nations Organization.

Both the Secretary-General of the United Nations and the High Commissioner for Human Rights expressed their commitment to activate all available mechanisms to restore, as soon as possible, the flagrantly violated rights of Venezuelan migrants.

For his part, President Nicolás Maduro Moros reaffirmed the Bolivarian Government's firm determination not to rest until it guarantees the safe return of every unjustly imprisoned compatriot to their homeland.

Caracas, March 28, 2025

Mazo News Team