Minister Cabello: International bodies did nothing for the 252 migrants kidnapped in the CECOT

Published at: 18/07/2025 08:05 PM

The sectoral vice-president for Politics, Citizen Security and Peace, Diosdado Cabello Rondón, specified that none of the international bodies acted actively on complaints about the illegal situation of the 252 Venezuelan migrants who were kidnapped at the Center for the Confinement of Terrorism (CECOT), in El Salvador.

“Those instances have done practically nothing. A Family Committee was even formed and they are going around the world, highlighting what this criminal (Nayib Bukele) was doing with Venezuelans,” he emphasized.

The statement was offered from the Simón Bolívar International Airport in Maiquetía, in the state of La Guaira, where he received, together with other authorities of the Bolivarian Government, the 252 Venezuelan migrants who were kidnapped in the CECOT, in El Salvador.

The minister maintained that “when they sent these 252, they said they had sent others (Venezuelans to CECOT). They haven't been named again, hopefully there aren't more (Venezuelans in that terrorist center).

In that regard, he commented that he asked the young migrants who arrived in the country about this possibility, “I asked these colleagues and they told me that they were the only ones who were there. Some migrants had arrived and returned them together with some colleagues.”

“It's absolutely irrational to send someone from a country where they didn't commit crimes to another. Of those that come, of the 252, only seven have serious crimes (...) whoever has problems with justice will go through justice, as it should be,” he said.

For that reason, he stressed that all the invented narrative that they were criminals is false, since it is not a crime to be Venezuelan, or to have a tattoo on their body or to want to work, “they demonized and stigmatized them before the world.”

Mazo News Team