Antifascist International of Costa Rica, said in a statement they condemn the arbitrary detention and deportation to “concentration camps for Venezuelan migrants” and high security megaprisons of El Salvador, what they call a blatant attack on basic human rights.

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“The Antifascist International, chapter Costa Rica, strongly denounces the arrest and abduction of 240 Venezuelan migrants by United States authorities, who transferred them to high-security mega-prisons in El Salvador, a country that also receives money for each detainee, thus profiting from the suffering and subjugation of migrants” said the organization.

The movement also demanded “the immediate release of the 240 migrants and an end to deportations to unsafe countries. The independent investigation by international organizations (UN, IACHR) into the responsibility for these deportations. The repeal of agreements that only facilitate human rights violations,” and comprehensive judicial protection for Venezuelan migrants or of any other nationality.

According to the Antifascist International, this act constitutes a grave violation of human rights, international law and basic principles of dignity. ” Migrants, detained without access to fair trial, due process or background assessment, face an uncertain and inhumane fate when sent to a third country.”

The organization also emphasized that these measures, coordinated between the governments of El Salvador and the US, reflect xenophobic and authoritarian policies that criminalize migration, equating vulnerable people with criminals.

The Costa Rican chapter emphasized that international rights are violated: the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (Art. 9) against arbitrary detention, the Convention on Refugees (protection of refugees), the Convention on Migrant Workers (dignified treatment and legal defence), the Convention on the Rights of the Child (best interests of the child, including detained minors) and the San José Pact (respect for fundamental rights, due process, presumption of innocence). Questionable bilateral agreements involve US complicity. and El Salvador in practices of persecution and dehumanization, reminiscent of fascist regimes.

“The criminalization of migration is not an isolated fact: it is part of a global system that prioritizes borders over lives. We stand in solidarity with the Venezuelan people, forced to migrate by the crisis induced by Venezuela’s far-right, many of whose leaders are outside Venezuela, and operate with groups from other countries and displaced communities,” they argue.

In this regard, the Costa Rican anti-fascist chapter invites organizations, social movements and citizens to:
Push, mobilize, and make visible because “No human is illegal!”

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