Cuba denounces kidnapping of Venezuelan migrants as atrocious act

Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez stated today that the kidnapping of Venezuelan migrants and any other citizens and their expulsion to third countries by the United States is an atrocious act.
 
 
The foreign minister made this statement on the social media platform X, where he criticized these processes carried out on citizens “without trial, defense, or sanction from a competent court,” while also describing them as cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment.

The day before, the Venezuelan government called the kidnapping of migrants from the Bolivarian nation in El Salvador a crime against humanity.

Venezuelan Attorney General Tarek William Saab said they were previously criminalized and stigmatized without any basis for trial.

At a press conference, he explained that if no crime has been committed and deportation is appropriate, there is also a rule established by the United Nations, which “establishes dependence on that body for them to be brought to Venezuela,” he explained.

Saab denounced that this constitutes a crime against humanity because all the conditions contemplated, consulted, and recorded by the Rome Statute are present, so that “an action of this magnitude is classified as a crime against humanity.”