A seminar on the criminalization of migration and migrants Human Rights was held on April 3 at the Casa Amarilla (Seat of the Venezuelan Chancellory) in Caracas. The event featured presentations by international guests from Panama, El Salvador, Argentina, and Peru.
This seminar, which seeks to expose the geopolitical use of exodus, the legal instrumentalization against the peoples of the Global South, and the colonial logic that still governs the global migration system, is taking place within the framework of the Antifascist International for a New World and will run until April 4.
Rander Peña, Vice Minister for Latin America, was one of the speakers and condemned the cruel treatment of Venezuelan migrants in El Salvador: «This cruel treatment being committed against migrants without any evidence is against good Venezuelans, who for economic reasons sought a better situation under the siren call. They sought to regularize their economic situation, but that information was used against them. The migrants in El Salvador are Venezuelans who will return safe and sound and will arrive to embrace their families; they will be back smiling.»
For his part, Roberto Lucero, the speaker from Panama, expressed solidarity with the Venezuelan migrants kidnapped in El Salvador, and emphasized that, despite the suspension of diplomatic relations, relations between the two nations are not prevented from continuing.
In this regard, he expressed his support for the statement from the American Society of Jurists, which condemns the deportation of migrants to third countries and demands respect for human rights. of the same, as well as their prompt return to Venezuela.