The government of Venezuela condemned the decision of the United States authorities to designate as 'terrorists' different organizations, including the now extinct Tren de Aragua, a criminal structure that has already been dismantled in Venezuelan territory.
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00:00The government of Venezuela condemned the decision of the United States authorities
00:04to designate as terrorists different organizations, including the now-extinct Tren de Aragua,
00:10a criminal structure that has already been dismantled in Venezuelan territory.
00:14Through a communiqué, the government of Venezuela stated that the organized crime group Tren
00:19de Aragua was, at the time, used by foreign agencies such as the FBI and the DEA for terrorist
00:26and destabilizing purposes against the institutionality of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela.
00:31In addition, it was used by sectors of the Venezuelan ultra-right to create chaos, destabilization
00:37and violence in the country.
00:39It also stressed that the government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela informs that
00:44within the framework of the Return to the Homeland Plan, it has requested the repatriation
00:49of a group of nationals who were unjustly taken to the Guantanamo Naval Base.
00:54This request has been accepted and the citizens have been transferred to Honduras, from where
00:59they will be brought back by Kenyatta's planes to be reunited with their families.
01:05Venezuela expresses its gratitude to President Xiomara Castro and to the Honduran leader
01:09ex-president Manuel Zelaya for all the collaboration provided for the rescue of these compatriots.