Exchange proposal is illegal and morally inadmissible – Diarioovea

See / Yuleidys Hernández Toledo

Exchange proposal is illegal and morally inadmissible. This was the formal response he directed on Tuesday, April 22, Venezuela to El Salvador, a country that aims to “redeem” 252 Venezuelan migrants kidnapped in the CECOT (Center for Confinement of Terrorism), located in Tecoluca, El Salvador, by terrorists detained in our country and on those who weigh judicial evidence that attempted against democracy and peace in Venezuela.

Through a statement led by the Venezuelan Foreign Ministry to the Salvadoran, the government of the Head of state, Nicolás Maduro, states that The proposal for the exchange made by El Salvador, is illegal and morally inadmissible, «by pretending to condition the liberation of innocent people to an exchange for citizens deprived of liberty in Venezuela for completely alien reasons (commission of terrible punishable facts), without legal or ethical foundation. Taking into account additionally, that none of the detainees who mention the Salvadoran citizens, most of these Venezuelan citizens. This approach constitutes a legal, unprecedented aberration within the framework of bilateral or multilateral relations, which violates elementary principles of justice, proportionality and human dignity«.

The national response occurs after this Tuesday, April 22, El Salvador formalized in a communication addressed to the Venezuelan Foreign Ministry the proposal that raised two days before, through the digital network X, Nayib Bukele, concerning its claim to continue “negotiating” with the life of the nationals held in a forced way in their country, in return that the Bolivarian government releases a series of men and women linked to a series of men and women. They are detained for being involved in conspiracy actions, including: Rocío San Miguel, Roland Carreño, Rafael Tudares, son -in -law of Edmundo González, as well as a set of characters from various nationalities captured since last year and so far from 2025 because they are related to magnicide plans and terrorist activities.

Venezuela affirms that the diplomatic note of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of El Salvador, “constitutes, in effect, an express confession of serious violations of International Human Rights Law, as well as the commission of acts that could be typified as international criminal actions.”

In the statement, Venezuela denounces in five points the crimes committed by the Bukele government in complicity with the Donald Trump regime against the nationals.

First, it refers to the violation of the human rights of kidnapped Venezuelans, who were deprived of arbitrarily liberty, held without prior court order or judgment in a maximum security confinement center, “subject to degrading and inhuman conditions, without the possibility of contact with family members or legal representation, and most importantly, making them victims of the very serious crime of human trafficking.”

In the same way and as a second point, it denounces collective criminalization and institutional xenophobia, by attributing without individual evidence the linking of detainees with transnational criminal organizations, already dismantled in Venezuela.

As a third point, he denounces the denial of the right to defense, due process and access to the justice of Venezuelan migrants kidnapped in El Salvador, “by not guaranteeing information on charges imputed, or access to legal assistance, or appearance before competent courts, in direct violation of the minimum guarantees recognized by general international law, automatically transforming them into victims of forced disappearance.”

The fourth point is the rejection of Bukele’s exchange proposal for being illegally and morally inadmissible.

Fifth is the kidnapping and forced transfer to a third country without a court order or legal process, executed by authorities of the United States of America, who arbitrarily deported these Venezuelan citizens to the Salvadoran territory.

Venezuela demands that the Government of El Salvador “the immediate and unconditional liberation of the 252 Venezuelan citizens arbitrarily detained in Salvadoran territory, and holds the Salvadoran state responsible for any affectation to their physical and psychological integrity.”

The National Government also urges the Government of El Salvador to give immediate, truthful and complete response, to the questionnaire prepared by the Venezuelan Public Ministry, which contains fundamental requirements for ongoing investigation.

In the questionnaire, the identification of the kidnapped is requested.

Among the questions that are reflected in the form sent by the public body, “what crimes have these Venezuelan citizens committed in El Salvador?; Before which court have they been submitted and what procedure is followed against them? Have their right to defense, health and communication with their relatives?

They also request the immediate delivery of faith of the life of each of the Venezuelans detained, among others.

“The answer to these questions is fundamental and mandatory to begin the process of restitution of the freedoms of the kidnapped and their return to Venezuela,” says the text.

On Monday, April 21, the Head of State, Nicolás Maduro, described as illegitimate, illegal and abusive the proposal that Nayib Bukele made on Sunday concerns him to redeem Venezuelan migrants kidnapped in the CECOT.

This Tuesday, April 22, prior to the Foreign Ministry statement, relatives of the kidnapped asked the National Government not to accept Bukele’s proposal.

«We do not need an extent here, here what we need is to return us to our children, since they are not political. They do not have to have them hostage or bone from anything, our children are not guilty of the problems that countries have. They are grabbing them as bait (…) ». The overwhelming statement made it on Tuesday, April 22, to See newspaper, Jepzy ArteagaMother of Carlos Alejandro Cañizales Arteaga, one of the more than 200 young people held in a forced way by the regime led by Nayib Bukele in El Salvador.

“After Bukele’s statements we are all dismayed because he is treating us to our children as if they were from the Aragua train,” and added that the national government cannot accept that proposal, because doing so is “to assume that our children are from the Aragua train, and Our children are not from Aragua’s train. We cannot accept that«, He firmly said in statements to this portal.

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