President Maduro Demands Safe Return of Kidnapped Venezuelan Migrants and Baby Maikelys Espinoza - teleSUR English
- On May 1, 2025, Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro called for the immediate release of 253 Venezuelan migrants held unlawfully in El Salvador, as well as the urgent repatriation of one-year-old Maikelys Espinoza, who is in U.S. Custody.
- Maduro made the demand during Labor Day protests, accusing U.S. Authorities of complicity in criminalizing Venezuelan migrants and highlighting Maikelys’s forced separation from her deported mother and imprisoned father.
- The Venezuelan government and human rights defenders pursue all legal and diplomatic efforts to secure Maikelys’s safe return, condemning family separation as a human rights violation and an act of abduction by U.S. Officials.
- Maduro claimed the U.S. Fabricated links between migrants and the dismantled Tren de Aragua gang to justify “criminal sanctions” and condemned right-wing figures for supporting foreign intervention causing xenophobic violence.
- This event underscores ongoing migrant rights violations involving family separation, raising tensions between Venezuela, the U.S., and El Salvador over the treatment of Venezuelan migrants abroad.
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Venezuela: Attorney General Meets With Mother and Grandmother of Baby Abducted by US Authorities
Venezuelan Attorney General Tarek William Saab received Yorelys Bernal and Raida Inciarte, mother and grandmother respectively of the two-year old Venezuelan baby Maikelys Espinoza who was seized from her parents by the United States authorities and whose whereabouts are unknown. At the meeting on Wednesday, April 30, Saab informed the public that two special attorneys were appointed to review the abduction of the two-year-old girl whose mother …
President Maduro Demands Safe Return of Kidnapped Venezuelan Migrants and Baby Maikelys Espinoza - teleSUR English
Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro calls for the immediate release of kidnapped migrants in El Salvador and the return of Maikelys Espinoza, denouncing U.S. and right-wing complicity in the criminalization of Venezuelan migration. During massive Labor Day demonstrations, Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro issued a forceful demand for the release of one-year-old Maikelys Espinoza, currently held in U.S. custody, and 253 Venezuelan migrants repo…
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