“They are looking for any excuse to grab us”: panic paralyzes Venezuelan immigrant communities in the United States

“What am I doing? I go to the police and say, ‘Check my tattoos with time. I’m not a criminal’?” Nassi is desperate with news about tattooed Venezuelan immigrants who have been deported from the United States to a megacarcel from El Salvador as alleged members of the Aragua Train, a criminal gang born in Venezuela. Nassi has tattoos all over her neck and part of her arms. “I made some musical notes on my wrist. The Pisces sign and the Libra sign…

The voluntary departure was presented as a less traumatic alternative for many migrants who are in detention. However, the case of John Chacín, a Venezuelan who entered legally with the CBP One application, ended up in a megacarcel in El Salvador and set off alarms about the impact of these decisions.From the voluntary exit to a Bukele prison John Chacín crossed the border through the entry port of Chaparral, in San Ysidro, on October 8, 2024, a…

Venezuela’s president, Nicolás Maduro, denounced this Thursday since a day in Miranda State, the kidnapping of Venezuelan migrants in El Salvador, where he said that so far the regime of President Nayib Bukele has not published the list of the more than 200 nationals kidnapped in the Central American nation. READ ALSO Venezuela exposes fascist policy of Bukele against migrants The denunciation occurs while the hermetism of the government of Buke…

The lack of reliable information about his son Óscar – one of the 238 Venezuelans deported from the U.S. to the maximum security prison in El Salvador – is taking Gertrudis Pineda to the brink of despair. By BBC WORLD Every time he talks about him he can’t stop crying. “My son went to look for the ‘American dream’ and is now trapped in a nightmare,” he claims. Oscar lived in Dallas, Texas. His mother says he made a living by installing carpets i…

Venezuela denounced the United States (US) before the Human Rights Council of the United Nations (UN) for the kidnapping of Venezuelan migrants who were taken to the dungeons built by the President of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele. On its Telegram channel, Venezuela’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Yván Gil, stated that the US nation commits crimes against humanity with “the persecution and criminalization of Venezuelan migrants.” He reiterated that t…

VEA / Yuleidys Hernández Toledo The president of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele denies the right to defense to the 238 Venezuelans he has kidnapped in that country. This was denounced on Thursday, March 27 by the head of state, Nicolás Maduro, who highlighted that Salvadoran lawyers who are representing the nationals and that on Monday, March 24 they introduced a legal remedy from Habeas Corpus have not had access to their defenders.