In an act transmitted by the Venezuelan state television (VTV), the leader of Chavismo said that, although “The Aragua train It indeed existed, “now” it’s cosmic dust in Venezuela. “
“Who took some criminals, among them surely from the Aragua train, for the outside?” Well, the former president of Colombia Iván Duque took them and gave them refuge in Colombia; The former deceased president of Chile, Sebastián Piñera, took them to Chile, ”he said.
That organization, given by dismantled in September 2023 by the administration of Maduro, is indicated as a terrorist in the US Members of that group to El Salvadorwhose president, Nayib Bukele, has offered to imprison.
Rejection of Venezuela
Maduro reiterated his rejection of what he considers a “humiliation” and a “kidnapping of these young Venezuelan workers”, who, denounced, were “deceived, handcuffed, mounted on a plane, kidnapped and sent to a concentration camp in El Salvador”, which also described as a “cruelty.”
— President Nayib Bukele, with all due respect, asked him, what judge did the order in El Salvador, under what positions, under what judicial process, under what right to defense, to have prisoners to 238 Venezuelans who were migrants in the United States? Maduro pointed out.
The Chavista also said that relatives have contacted “important law firms, human rights defenders of El Salvador”, while Venezuelan authorities work “in the diplomatic part” in order to “free these boys.”
On the other hand, Maduro ordered on Wednesday to increase the actions to guarantee the repatriation flights of Venezuelan migrants arrested in the US.
Sanctions by the US.
This Wednesday, the United States Department of State said it will apply “new, severe and progressive sanctions” to Venezuela if it does not accept new airplanes with its national deportees, after Caracas condemn the recent shipment of more than 200 of its citizens to El Salvador without a previous judicial view.
Washington insists, without providing evidence, that those Venezuelans are members of the Aragua train.
In a press conference, the state department spokeswoman, Tammy Bruce, said that this band “is closely associated” with “the Maduro regime”, in line with what was previously said by the White House, who said the group “has been sent by the hostile regime” of the Chavista leader.