Venezuela Accuses the U.S. and El Salvador of Improperly Expelling Migrants
Venezuelan migrants at a Salvadoran maximum security prison. March 2025. X/ @El_Cooperante
March 21, 2025 Hour: 12:01 pm
The U.S. and El Salvador are normalizing the trade of migrants as a new economic activity, Ambassador Yanez said.
On Friday, during the meeting of the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva, Venezuela strongly reproached the United States for deporting Venezuelan immigrants without criminal records to a maximum-security prison in El Salvador.
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“The U.S. is paying El Salvador sums of money for each Venezuelan received as an alleged criminal, without due process and subjected to cruel and degrading treatment, as evidenced by countless videos released even by Salvadoran authorities,” said Alexander Yanez, the Venezuelan ambassador to the United Nations in Geneva.
Addressing the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, the Bolivarian diplomat asserted that “your office has a crucial responsibility in condemning this atrocity, and the indifference of the organization and the human rights system only confirms, as has happened in the Palestinian genocide, the ineffectiveness and lack of credibility of this system.”
Yanez emphasized that the U.S. is using the 1798 Alien Enemies Act to expel Venezuelan citizens, a law whose previous applications have demonstrated its inhumanity. In this regard, He recalled that this act was invoked to send Japanese descendants to internment camps on U.S. soil during World War II.
“The White House is using Venezuelan migrants to prove they are firmly delivering on their campaign promise of mass deportations, flagrantly violating all human rights of these people,” Yanez stated, warning that the U.S. will also apply the 1798 Act against migrants from other Latin American countries.
He also warned that U.S.-El Salvador cooperation is normalizing “the trade of migrants as a new economic activity,” which is happening with the complicity of the Venezuelan far-right opposition, other governments allied with Washington, and even UN agencies.
On Thursday night, Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel also rejected the policy adopted by U.S. President Donald Trump toward Venezuelan migrants.
“The U.S. government’s fabrication of pretexts to detain and expel Venezuelans in that country is a maneuver to punish the Venezuelan people, setting a dangerous precedent for our America,” he said through the platform X.
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Source: EFE
