On Thursday (1), hundreds of thousands of workers in Caracas took to the streets in support of the Venezuelan government led by President Nicolás Maduro.
This year, the festive date was also marked by protests against crimes committed by the United States, particularly its devastating policy of persecuting and imprisoning immigrants—violating the most basic norms of international law.
Classified as “terrorists” by Donald Trump, in complicity with President Nayib Bukele, 253 Venezuelans were sent to a maximum-security prison in El Salvador. Without any charges, they are being held incommunicado and denied the right to a defense.
In this context, the Venezuelan government is demanding the return of Maikelys Espinoza, a 2-year-old girl, to her family after U.S. authorities arrested her parents. Her mother was rescued through one of the repatriation flights, but her father was sent to El Salvador.
As a result, Maikelys was effectively kidnapped, separated from her parents, and is now being held as a hostage by the Trump administration.
On Thursday, the Venezuelan government and people demonstrated that they will fight to the end to rescue their citizens, victims of xenophobia—yet another escalation in U.S. aggression against the Bolivarian Revolution and its people.
Original article published in Telesur.
