Head of State celebrates rescue of Venezuelans kidnapped in El Salvador: We have achieved a new miracle

Published at: 18/07/2025 06:00 PM

The President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, celebrated this Friday the rescue of the 252 Venezuelan migrants who were kidnapped at the Center for Confinement of Terrorism (CECOT), in El Salvador, after intense negotiations with the governments of the United States (USA) and the Central American country.

“They are already flying to Caracas, and in the next few minutes they are going to land at Simon Bolivar Airport in Maiquetía. That's how I committed myself to family members,” said the Head of State during his participation in the Peasant Congress.

He recalled that the 252 Venezuelans “did not commit any crime in El Salvador, they were kidnapped in the United States, they were disappeared. They had no right to defense, they didn't have a judge in El Salvador, they didn't have the right to access their lawyers, they didn't have the right to due process. Under no circumstances were they kidnapped and I pledged to their families and to all of Venezuela that I was going to rescue them safe and sound and they are traveling to our beautiful homeland. Free, healthy, safe!” , he said.

“We have achieved a new miracle with the favor of God and his blessings, always God ahead of us. With the unity and mobilization of the people of Venezuela, with faith in justice, we have rescued these 252 Venezuelans from the concentration and torture camps of Nayib Bukele in El Salvador,” added the Dignitary.

He revealed that the first testimonies of these migrants highlight that “they were savagely tortured in these concentration camps. We bring in one of them who lost a kidney as a result of the beatings they beat him. Many of them were tortured on several occasions, they were mistreated, put and served them food whenever they wanted, made them go hungry for days on end and put rotten food in them,” he lamented.

In this regard, he pointed out that when he arrived in Venezuela, “a special team of doctors from the neighborhood is waiting for them to treat them and do their full medical checkup.”

Mazo News Team