Salvadoran authorities deny the right to visit relatives of Venezuelans held in CECOT

Published at: 15/06/2025 10:56 AM

The Venezuelan delegation that arrived in El Salvador last Tuesday ended its visit to the Central American country without any response regarding their relatives being held illegally by the government of Nayib Bukele in the Penitentiary Center Against Terrorism (CECOT), despite having no record or judicial process in that nation.

Family members of the deported Creoles, accompanied by their legal representatives, submitted several requests to the General Directorate of Penal Centres in San Salvador to make a formal visit to the prison and verify the physical and psychological state of the detainees.

After submitting the request to the general director of Penal Centres, Osiris Luna Meza, the representatives of the detainees visited the Office of the Attorney General for the Defense of Human Rights with the objective of making the request for supervision of the conditions in which the prisoners are found. However, to date they have not received any response.

The representative of the International Amparo Foundation of Venezuela, Walter Márquez, questioned the violations of the judicial process committed against Venezuelan migrants and the disrespect for their human rights enshrined in the United Nations charter. “They are there without any judicial process and without any crime committed in this country,” said Márquez.

The activist reiterated that detainees must be guaranteed the right to visit and their families must be allowed to verify the state in which they are, since they have not known anything about them for more than three months, he said, quoted by national media.

Mazo News Team