Attacks on Venezuelan Migrants Violate International Law: ISB
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March 19, 2025 Hour: 2:43 pm
Those who have emigrated to U.S. territory are not criminals, the Simon Bolivar Institute pointed out.
On Wednesday, the Simon Bolivar Institute for Peace and Solidarity Among Peoples (ISB) issued a statement in defense of the dignity and human rights of Venezuelan migrants who are being unjustly mistreated and harassed in the United States. Below is the full text of the statement:
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“The Simon Bolivar Institute for Peace and Solidarity Among Peoples expresses its strongest condemnation of the recent actions of the fascist U.S. government, which constitute a crime against humanity by criminalizing, kidnapping, and torturing those who have migrated from Venezuela to that country, including teenagers, boys, and girls, who are now considered ‘Foreign Enemies.’
This new aggression against the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, based on an outdated U.S. law from the 18th century that was last used in 1941, flagrantly violates international law.
Those who have emigrated from Venezuela to U.S. territory are, for the most part, victims of forced migration, not criminals. Their displacement is a direct consequence of hybrid warfare, the criminal economic blockade against the Venezuelan people, and the deceptive propaganda of a campaign designed to induce migration.
They are victims of a system of dispossession that now seeks to stigmatize them, seize their assets, and persecute them—even in schools, hospitals, and public spaces—with the complicity of extremist and stateless sectors of the Venezuelan opposition.
We stand in solidarity with the families suffering from this criminal action and strongly reject this entire campaign of xenophobia against Venezuela. We view this operation as an attack on the peace of our America within the context of the revival of the Monroe Doctrine.
For this reason, we call on social movements and political organizations in our region and around the world to resist and mobilize in defense of the human rights of all migrants, demanding particular respect for the rights of children and adolescents.
We denounce and repudiate this systematic violation of human dignity and call for regional unity as a response from our peoples against segregationist policies that seek to divide us and promote xenophobia among us.
Today, more than ever, we must honor the words of the Liberator, Simon Bolivar: ‘The union of our peoples is not merely the chimerical dream of men, but an inexorable decree of destiny.’
They are not criminals—they are migrants! Migrating is a human right! Our America is a sovereign territory of peace! NO to the blockade! NO to imperialism!”
teleSUR/ JF
Sources: ISB – teleSUR
