Two relatives and two activists of an Oenegé spent three days in San Salvador, first trip to this country of relatives of the 252 Venezuelans that Donald Trump’s government expelled since March 15accusing them, without presenting evidence, of Integrate the criminal band of Aragua.
“I came with great enthusiasm, I promised my sister that soon the child (young) would be released, and many mothers. I don’t want you to lose faith. We were so close, but at the same time so far, ”he told AFP shortly before leaving El Salvador Jhoanna Sanguino, Widmer Agevuino’s aunt, one of the deportees, 24 years old.
Sanguino, Queen Cárdenas, friend of Andry Hernández Romero, A 32 -year expelled stylistand activists of the El Amparo Internacional Foundation, represent a dozen deportees from the state of Táchira (western Venezuela).
They attended, without response, to the Directorate of Criminal Centers to be allowed Enter the terrorism confinement center (CECOT), Maximum security prison built by Bukele For gang members in Tecoluca, 75 km from San Salvador.
“They are there without any judicial process and Without any crime committed in this country“He told the AFP Walter Márquez, president of the Foundation.
According to Márquez, they also requested in the Human Rights Attorney’s Office “the visit to the CECOT and guarantees of due process, The right to defense and health of prisoners“
In the Apostolic Nunciature they delivered a request for Leo XIV intercede in favor of the detainees. “The Pope himself was migrant in Peru then It is very sensitized with the issue of migration“Márquez said.
Trump’s key ally in his anti -immigrant policy, Bukele accepted the arrival in March of several airplanes with 252 Venezuelans and more than About thirty Salvadorans accused of being members of the Mara Salvatrucha gang (MS-13).
Washington will pay the Bukele government US $ 6 million for having them prisoners. Organizations such as Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch consider these arrests violate human rights.
“There are 252 Venezuelans that all their families are crying and fighting for them,” said Sanguino, who said they will continue waiting in Venezuela at least “Some contact, by phone or a letter, some faith of life“
Another thirty Venezuelans are represented in El Salvador by a Salvadoran law firm hired by the Venezuelan government. Táchira’s are critical of President Nicolás Maduro.