Maikelys Espinoza was separated from her mother as she was boarding a repatriation flight to Venezuela.

On Monday, the Venezuelan Foreign Affairs Ministry denounced that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) perpetrated a new violation of the human rights of Venezuelan migrants by separating a 24-month-old girl from her parents.

RELATED:

IMF Wages Economic War Against Venezuela: VP Rodriguez

This arbitrary act was carried out under the pretext that her parents allegedly had ties to the “Aragua Train,” a transnational criminal gang that had long since been fought and dismantled in Venezuela.

Without presenting evidence, U.S. authorities accused Maiker Espinoza of allegedly being a “lieutenant” of the group, and falsely accused Yorely Bernal of recruiting young women for the organization. To carry out this abuse, the DHS claimed that the child’s parents had pending deportation orders.

Below is the statement from the Venezuelan Ministry of Foreign Affairs:

“The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela denounces before the world the kidnapping by U.S. authorities of the two-year-old Venezuelan girl Maikelys Antonella Espinoza Bernal, who was separated from her mother as she was boarding a repatriation flight to Venezuela. Like so many other violations of the rights of our migrants, and in contravention of international norms — particularly the Universal Declaration of the Rights of the Child and the Charter of the United Nations — they have once again committed the extremely serious offense of separating families and removing a minor from her emotional environment, and in particular, from her biological mother.

As an unacceptable corollary to this, we also denounce that the father of the girl, Maikelys Espinoza, was kidnapped and sent, without any form of trial or judicial proceeding, to the concentration camp that the satrap Bukele erected in El Salvador, a modern-day version of the death trains that transported Jews to Nazi extermination camps in Eastern Europe during World War II.

In this despicable practice, and under the outraged gaze of decent women and men around the world, human beings are subjected to cruel and degrading treatment, families are separated, and Venezuelan citizens are sent to concentration camps in third countries governed by complicit and subservient administrations, in violation of every basic principle of due process and the rule of law.

In reality, the only “crime” our compatriots are accused of — to the shameful applause of the fascists of the Venezuelan extreme right, who gloat over crimes against humanity committed against our people — is having been born in our homeland and being the targets of fabricated infamies portraying them as non-existent threats to the security of the United States.

Venezuela will resort to all legal, political, and diplomatic mechanisms, as well as to all multilateral actions, aimed at ensuring that the sacred integrity of our families is respected and that international laws are upheld, so that the infant Maikelys Antonella Espinoza Bernal is returned safe and sound to her country, to be reunited with her mother and family, from whom she should never have been separated — an act of extreme violence that is absolutely unacceptable and inconceivable well into the 21st century.

We demand the immediate return of Maikelys to the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela and the restoration of the rule of law and the basic rights of our little girl, as established in the Universal Declaration of the Rights of the Child: ‘the right to life, survival, and development; to identity; to live in a family; to equality and non-discrimination; to education; to health; to recreation and leisure; and to protection from abuse, exploitation, and violence.'”

teleSUR/ JF

Sources: teleSUR – FM

EN ESTA NOTA: