President Petro asks Salvadoran Head of State to release Colombians and respect Venezuelan migrants

Published at: 19/04/2025 08:31 PM

The President of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, questioned the Head of State of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, while demanding the release of Colombians detained in his country's prisons and defending Venezuelan migrants against what he considers to be unjust criminalization.

In a message posted on social networks, Petro said: “No, Mr. Bukele, very bad. We do not accept, and the American justice system does not accept, the criminalization of children in Venezuela, the motherland of (El Libertador Simon) Bolívar. Give us the Colombians they have in their jails. Leave the Venezuelan people free, because those people do know how to shout freedom.”

He also criticized the agreement between the United States and El Salvador to send detained migrants to the Center for the Confinement of Terrorism (CECOT), a maximum security prison that has been the subject of complaints for human rights violations. According to Petro, “no democratic Latin American can accept as the beginning of a republic that, for the crimes of the gang called Tren de Aragua, all the Venezuelan people in exile are criminalized.”

Mazo News Team