(18 Mar 2025)
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Caracas, Venezuela – 18 March 2025
1. People marching at rally against U.S. deportations
2. Venezuela’s Vice president Delcy Rodriguez (right) next to woman with a sign who claims her son is at El Salvador
3. Man marching holding a sign that reads: “Human Rights for our Venezuelan migrants. Names “EEUU” and TDA (referring to criminal gang Tren de Aragua) appear crossed out
4. Various of Mirna Gualdrón, mother of Luis Gualdrón, holding sign with his picture and a message that reads: “Justice. We are not Tren de Aragua
5. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Mirna Gualdrón, mother of Venezuelan migrant:
“He was supposedly coming on a third plane that was supposed to come to Venezuela and they took him to El Salvador. That’s very wrong because they are skipping all laws. You can’t go over anyone’s head. He (Nayib Bukele) is nobody before God’s eyes, doing what he is doing to people in need, instead of helping.”
6. People holding signs at rally
7. Woman holding sign reading: “Bukele don’t be the antichrist. Be a Good Samaritan. Free my brothers”
8. Women holding signs of relatives they claim are in El Salvador prison
9. Jasmin Ramirez, aunt of Venezuelan migrant Angelo Escalona
10. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Jasmin Ramirez, aunt of Venezuelan migrant :
“On Friday we were called to say he was being deported. Well we expected that as it’s what they’re doing in that country (the U.S.). And it turns out at no time did he ever come to our country.”
11. Various of women marching
12. Various of woman marching holding sign reading: “Trump is surpassing Hitler! Venezuela will triumph”
13. Various of government supporter marching with a picture of late president Hugo Chavez
STORYLINE:
Venezuelas rallied in the streets of downtown Caracas with a march protesting against U.S. deportations to an El Salvadorean prison.
The rally which was filled with the usual attendees including government employees, officials and supporters, was headed by a group of several people claiming their relatives are in a prison in El Salvador.
Miran Gualdrón says her son is in El Salvador. She says she was supposed to come back home deported on a government-sponsored flight but then was taken to El Salvador.
"That’s very wrong because they are skipping all laws", says Gualdrón.
The Associated Press could not immediately and independently verify the claim.
Some are not sure, but say they assume they are there because they have lost contact with their relatives.
Jasmin Ramirez says her 18 year-old nephew, Angelo Escalona, was recording music at an apartment with friends in North Carolina when they were taken by U.S. officials.
She has not confirmed that he is in El Salvador.
“We are assuming that he is at El Salvador because he was part of a group that were all kidnapped (taken by U.S authorities) without committing any felony, and the relatives of some of them have identified their sons or relatives with some characteristic of their body”, said Ramirez
Government officials showed up at the rally, including vice president Delcy Rodriguez and government chief negotiator Jorge Rodriguez.
Hours before, the United Nations Fact Finding Mission on Venezuela presented the lates update on the country’s human rights situation.
The head of the mission, Marta Valiñas, detailed new findings after speaking with people detained in the country.
AP Video by Juan Arraez and Andry Rincon
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