Several member states of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA) on Saturday rejected the sanctions of the United States and deportations to third countries, such as the recent transfer of more than 200 migrants to El Salvador by the American nation.
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During the XXV Meeting of the Political Council From the organization, in Caracas, the head of Foreign Affairs of Venezuela, Yván Gil, said that several of the alliance -members of the Alliance are “victims of sanctions, unilateral coercive measures and daily threats” that, however, do not “make them back”.
Cuban Chancellor, Bruno Rodríguez, He expressed the “firm support” of the government of Miguel Díaz-Canel to Venezuela, while rejected that the USA, he said, resorts “to the use of brutally punitive economic-commercial tools, whose pernicious effect will have a negative impact” on the villages.
He also condemned the “kidnapping without jurisdiction or due process, without judgment, defense or sanction of the competent court, and sending third countries by the United States of Venezuelan migrants and any citizenship”, which he considered as “an atrocious act.”
Rodríguez also accused Washington of applying “discriminatory, repressive and illegal policies that aggregate the dignity and human rights” of migrants, while, he added, “” goes to blackmail, intimidation and implementation of a growing number of unilateral coercive measures. “
In that sense, Nicaragua’s chancellor, Valdrack Jantschkeexpressed the “invariable and growing solidarity” with the “brother people and government” of Venezuela and that of Cuba.
“We express our solidarity with the relatives of all these kidnapped and imprisoned migrant brothers,” said Jantschke, who also condemned the “illegal and inhuman blocky” American blockade against Cuba.
For her part, the Foreign Minister of Bolivia, Celinda Sosa, demanded “the cessation of unilateral coercive measures” against Venezuela and Nicaragua, as well as “the elimination of inhuman blockade to the brother people of Cuba.”
The official also condemned the “criminalization of migrants” and “her transfer to detention centers in third countries or deported under conditions that violate their rights.”
In his opinion, it is “necessary to consolidate a common position of rejection of the criminalization of migration that the president of the United States (Donald Trump) is apply today.”
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“We reject the application of policies that foster massive deportations and inhuman treatment towards migrant people,” Sosa said, who also warned that Trump administration measures “threaten the peaceful coexistence” and the sovereignty of the peoples.
In line with his counterparts, the Foreign Minister of San Vicente and the Granada, Frederick Stephenson, said that the “unilateral sanctions, regardless of their objective, are illegal” and have “terrible consequences that aggravate human suffering”, so he called on his lifting.
The Alba announced that, from April 24 to 27, a meeting of Ministers of Economy, Agriculture, Fisheries and Commerce of its member countries will be held in Caracas, including also by Antigua and Barbuda, San Cristóbal and Nieves, Granada, Dominica and Santa Lucía.
