(25 Mar 2025)
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Caracas, Venezuela – 25 March 2025
1. Various of relatives of Venezuelan migrants jailed in El Salvador chanting UPSOUND (Spanish) "Justice! Justice!"
2. Tatiana Silva, 30 (right) and Selene García, 50 (left), wife and mother respectively of Luis Yanez, Venezuelan jailed in El Salvador, marching while holding picture of Yanez
3. Silva carrying unofficial list published by CBS of alleged names of Venezuelans jailed in El Salvador
4. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Selene García, mother of deportee:
"You sleep and wake up thinking about them. Are they eating? How is their health? He has two children, they are having a bad time psychologically, they don’t want to go to school. They ask for their father, why is he not coming? It’s very hard to live that, and we live it day after day because they live with me and she (her daughter-in-law) also. He went there (to the United States) for their future to give them a house because they don’t have one. They live at mine and so because of that he left, because he said that this year he would give them a house."
5. Various of people marching
6. Various of women holding banners showing pictures of Venezuelans jailed in El Salvador
STORYLINE:
Relatives of Venezuelans jailed in El Salvador joined a government-sponsored rally on Tuesday demanding their release and return to the country.
People marched through Caracas holding banners with pictures of those jailed in El Salvador, marching alongside government supporters.
The marchers were accompanied by political propaganda music in support of president Nicolás Maduro.
Walking in Caracas’ scorching heat were Tatiana Silva, 30 and Selene García, 50, wife and mother, respectively, of Luis Yanez, a Venezuelan jailed in El Salvador.
They found out he was there when CBS published a list allegedly showing the names of the Venezuelans in El Salvador.
The Venezuelans were removed from the U.S. earlier this month after U.S. president Donald Trump invoked the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 , and said the U.S. was being invaded by the ‘Tren de Aragua’ gang.
The Alien Enemies Act gives the president wartime powers and allows noncitizens to be deported without the opportunity to go before an immigration or federal court judge.
The Tren, which means “train” in Spanish, traces its origin more than a decade ago to an infamously lawless prison with hardened criminals in the central state of Aragua.
It has expanded in recent years as more than 7.7 million Venezuelans fled economic turmoil under President Nicolás Maduro’s rule and migrated to other parts of Latin America or the U.S.
A central outstanding question about the deportees’ status is when and how they could ever be released from the prison, as they are not serving sentences.
They no longer appear in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s online detainee locator and have not appeared before a judge in El Salvador.
There has been no word from El Salvador’s president or judiciary about what the prisoners’ legal status is in that country.
The U.S. government has acknowledged that many do not have criminal records.
AP video shot by Juan Arraez
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