(21 Apr 2025)
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Caracas, Venezuela – 21 April 2025
1. Tarek William Saab, Attorney General of Venezuela arriving at the press conference
2. Saab waiting for press conference to begin
3. Saab on the screen of a video camera
4. Saab waiting for press conference to start
5. Saab watching a video
7. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Tarek William Saab, Attorney General of Venezuela:
“Yesterday, committing one of the most terrible missteps that somehow definitively unmasks him, he confessed to having kept kidnapped, as forced disappearance, more than 250 Venezuelans who did not commit crimes in El Salvador.”
7. Various of Saab watching a video
9. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Tarek William Saab, Attorney General of Venezuela:
“It could be qualified that he is committing the crime of human trafficking, and so I denounce it. Why? Because he keeps missing, kidnapped in El Salvador, approximately 260 Venezuelans in exchange for a payment of $7 million dollars. So, he is making a business with this criminal action at the margin of international law and, therefore, he is becoming a trafficker of people of Venezuelan nationality.”
9. Saab ending the press conference
10. Various of Saab talking to an assistant
11. Saab leaving the press conference
STORYLINE:
Venezuelan Attorney General Tarek William Saab denounced on Monday that more than 250 Venezuelans are illegally detained in El Salvador.
According to Saab, the Salvadoran president, Nayib Bukele, “confessed to having kept more than 250 Venezuelans" kidnapped in El Salvador as forced disappearances”.
On Monday, Saab described Bukele as a “serial violator of human rights”. He alleged that the Venezuelans are “kidnapped” and “forcibly disappeared”, without access to legal defense or presentation before a court.
In his statements, Saab added that Bukele keeps approximately 260 Venezuelans disappeared, kidnapped in El Salvador, in exchange for a payment of $7 million dollars.
These accusations come after Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele proposed on Sunday to carry out a prisoner exchange with Venezuela.
Bukele suggested exchanging Venezuelans deported from the United States that his government is holding in prison for what he called “political prisoners” in Venezuela.
AP video by Andrey Rincon.
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