The President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro Moros, held a telephone conversation with the Secretary-General of the United Nations, António Guterres, on Wednesday, March 26, 2025. Subsequently, on March 28, he held a second communication, this time with the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, to request the United Nations System to make a firm commitment to guaranteeing the rights of Venezuelan migrants.
The letter states that the head of state emphasized the need for this institution to guarantee compliance with international law, especially that which protects people on the move: «This request aims to ensure the immediate and unconditional release of the 238 compatriots unjustly detained in El Salvador’s concentration camps, where they have been imprisoned without any judicial process and deprived of their right to defense.»
The president told both Guterres and Türk that these actions evoke the persecution suffered by the Jewish people under Adolf Hitler’s Nazi regime during World War II, and recalled that «these crimes not only marked one of the darkest pages in history, but also led to the collapse of the international order of the time and the disappearance of the League of Nations, the precursor to the current United Nations.»
Likewise, the document states that both officials expressed their commitment to activating all available mechanisms to restore «as soon as possible the flagrantly violated rights of Venezuelan migrants.» For his part, President Nicolás Maduro Moros reaffirmed the Bolivarian Government’s firm determination not to rest until the safe return of every unjustly imprisoned compatriot to their homeland is guaranteed