US and El Salvador detain kidnapped migrants, says Venezuelan official

Record ID: 1986589

  • Title: US and El Salvador detain kidnapped migrants, says Venezuelan official
  • Date: 28th March 2025
  • Summary: LA GUAIRA, VENEZUELA (MARCH 28, 2025) (REUTERS) (NIGHT SHOTS) VARIOUS OF MIGRANTS DISEMBARKING PLANE MEDIA REPORTING ON PLANE ARRIVAL ON RUNWAY (SOUNDBITE) (Spanish) VENEZUELAN MINISTER OF INTERIOR RELATIONS, JUSTICE, AND PEACE, DIOSDADO CABELLO, SAYING: “The U.S. government along with the government of El Salvador are keeping a group of Venezuelans kidnapped in El Salvado
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  • Keywords: Donald Trump United States Venezuela deportees flight migrants
  • Location: LA GUAIRA, VENEZUELA
  • City: LA GUAIRA, VENEZUELA
  • Country: Venezuela
  • Topics: Asylum/Immigration/Refugees,South America / Central America,Government/Politics
  • Reuters ID: LVA001247928032025RP1
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: EDITORS PLEASE NOTE: THIS EDIT COMPLEMENTS EDIT PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED 2284-TRUMP/MIGRATION-VENEZUELA-FLIGHT, WITH BETTER-QUALITY FOOTAGE, NEW FOOTAGE AND SOUNDBITES FROM CABELLO.
    Venezuela’s Minister of Interior, Justice, and Peace, Diosdado Cabello, demanded on Friday (March 28) the release of hundreds of Venezuelans detained in a Salvadoran mega-prison during the welcoming of a new deportation flight of migrant compatriots.
    The new deportation flight came after U.S. President Donald Trump invoked an obscure wartime law to rapidly deport Venezuelan migrants who were, according to the White House, members of Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua, which Washington has declared a terrorist group and alien enemy.
    Despite a judge quickly blocking the measure, the Trump administration deported more than 200 Venezuelans - 137 under the wartime act - to El Salvador, where they are being detained in the country's massive anti-terrorism prison.
    Venezuela denies the migrants' involvement in the criminal group, which the government claims was eradicated. Lawyers and family members of the migrants also deny their gang ties and say some may have been deported because of their tattoos, which they said U.S. immigration authorities claimed imply gang ties.
    (Production: Efrain Otero, Johnny Carvajal, Anna Portella)
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