Relatives of migrants kidnapped in El Salvador demand their return

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The president of the National Assembly and delegate to the Government's peace talks, Jorge Rodriguez, exchanges with the families of migrants kidnapped in El Salvador, who demand the return of their relatives and respect for their rights. teleSUR  These and many other stories now! 🌐Join teleSUR's community and be part of a space where your ideas matter.  https://chat.whatsapp.com/KLABTE41aSj3ioYabXQQ6K 🗣 Don't be left behind, join teleSUR's Channel https://whatsapp.com/channel/0029Va98Z437Noa2tjytCt1N Web💬 https://www.telesurenglish.net/ X🧶 https://twitter.com/telesurenglish Instagram 📸 https://www.instagram.com/telesurenglish/?hl=es Facebook 📱 https://www.facebook.com/teleSUREnglishOfficial Youtube ⏯ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmuTmpLY35O3csvhyA6vrkg Tiktok👌🏼 https://www.tiktok.com/@telesurenglish?_t=8hMLCY0a6z7&_r=1

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00:00We heard testimony of all the mothers, the fathers, of the family members, of the grandparents,

00:19and I think it's important that the people of Venezuela listens from their own voices

00:24of the family members of our brothers and sisters kidnapped in El Salvador to listen

00:31their own testimonies and the truth about these brothers and sisters that will be rescued

00:41by the forces of truth and the forces of God and the people of Venezuela.

00:48Let's listen to Jetsi, a mother of one of our brothers kidnapped in El Salvador.

00:53Good afternoon.

00:54We came here to denounce the atrocity that is being committed with our sons because none

01:01of them have criminal record.

01:07All of them are innocent, not because we say it, because it has been proven that the ones

01:16that are truly committing a crime with our sons is them.

01:20So we call for the help of all with the signatures that we take to the streets if necessary,

01:28but we need our sons back.

01:30Please, we need the help of all of you.

01:33We condemn and we denounce before the world that it be known that those people, those

01:39young men and women are not guilty.

01:42They are innocent.

01:43I say again, they have already been investigated by all the parties and they are innocent.

01:50Let's also listen to the testimony of a father of one of the boys that is currently kidnapped

01:55in El Salvador, Osvaldo Moreno.

01:59Good afternoon.

02:02I come here to denounce before the world, before the country, to raise awareness that

02:11what is happening here is a complete injustice.

02:14They are ending our life, they are ending our heart, they are destroying families, parents

02:19are being destroyed, innocent children that are in those jails next to criminals just

02:25because of their nationality, for being Venezuelans.

02:31This circus, this demonic duo of Bukele and Trump has to be brought down.

02:39Let's open our eyes, Venezuelans, today is us, but it can be anyone tomorrow.

02:46To migrate is not a crime.

02:48Our sons have not committed any crime and this has been proven because it has been investigated.

02:54All the people that are currently there are innocent.

02:57The only crime before this demonic duo is that they are Venezuelan and we have to defend

03:03our dignity and sovereignty before the world and the organizations of international rights

03:08and human rights organizations have to raise their voices before these atrocities.

03:14Here we have the truth, 240 Venezuelan young men that entered the United States and that

03:24they legally registered before the migration organizations of the United States.

03:32Everything is known, their work is known, they were kitchen helpers, they were artists,

03:37they were plumbers, delivery.

03:42All of them, they complied with the requirements that the United States imposed of them to

03:48live in the United States, in different cities of the country.

03:53That under the siege, armed with violence, they were kidnapped, they entered their homes,

03:58they were hit and they were brought out of their homes or from the workplaces or in the

04:05public places.

04:08They were caught in the same migration offices where they went to express their desire to

04:15return to Venezuela.

04:20So deceiving them, telling them that they were being returned to Venezuela, they took

04:25them to a prison and from there, a flight that can only be compared with the transportation

04:34of trains of the Jewish population towards concentration camps in Nazi Germany.

04:41The exact same modus operandi, without telling them where they were going, they took them

04:45to a third country that none of those people had known until this moment.

04:52How can it be possible that Bukele accepts and allows, and even worse, gets money for

04:59having people kidnapped in there, people that have not committed any crime, nor in El Salvador,

05:05nor in the United States, nor in the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela?

05:09It's a vulgar crime, a kidnapping, and they are submitting to slave work to young men

05:18and women.

05:19How can it be possible that eight Venezuelan women are being taken to El Salvador and they

05:25are there kidnapped in a high-risk prison where only there are men?

05:30How can that be possible?

05:32How can they kidnap a minor who turned 20 in the United States, and the age majority

05:42in the United States is 21, and he turned 21 while being detained in one of those centers?

05:50How can it be possible that they took young, innocent men to El Salvador and they abandoned

05:57women and children, their wives, that they have no idea what to do now?

06:01So what we are doing is we are going to move heaven and earth.

06:04We are going to do anything that is necessary.

06:06We are going to talk with whoever we need to talk with, and we are going to bring all

06:10Venezuelans back from the United States, and above all, so that over 240 Venezuelans kidnapped

06:18in El Salvador can return to home, to their families, to their homeland, to their territory,

06:24to the homeland that we all carry in our hearts.

06:28We have hired the best lawyers in El Salvador to defend our young men and women and secure

06:36their release.

06:37We are contacting the best lawyers in terms of migration in the United States, so that

06:42they represent the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, and so that they also represent

06:47all Venezuelan migrants.

06:49To migrate, as one of the family members said, is not a crime.

06:54And these young men and women did not commit any crime, nor in the United States, and even

07:01less in El Salvador, that they didn't even know about that country until they were taken

07:05there, kidnapped.

07:09The International Declaration of Human Rights is being violated.

07:12The UN Charter is being violated.

07:15The Universal Declaration of the Rights of Children is also being violated.

07:20All conventions on migration are being violated.

07:26Same time, we want to insist that Venezuela is ready.

07:31We have everything that is possible to renew the flights from Venezuela to bring Venezuelan

07:41migrants that are currently in the United States.

07:44We are ready and completely prepared.

07:48We are only waiting for the coordination, the necessary coordination.

07:53Who is the one blocking this?

07:54Who is impeding that these flights take place?

07:57Is it the Department, the State Department of the United States government?

08:02I say again, we are ready to go and pick up our brothers in the United States of America.

08:14If it were up to us, we would bring all of them.

08:17We wouldn't leave one single Venezuelan to be mistreated in the United States.

08:22And besides, we say it again, and we will achieve this.

08:27We won't rest.

08:28And I mean the whole people of Venezuela, the President Nicolás Maduro, the government

08:34of the Republic of Venezuela, the National Assembly, and above all, mothers and fathers

08:38of those young men.

08:40We will not rest until they arrive here in the Simón Bolívar Airport in Maiketia, here

08:47in their homeland, in the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela.

08:50We won't rest, and we will achieve this.

08:53We pledge this, and we serve it on our sons, on God All-Powerful.

08:57We will bring them back.

08:59They will return.

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