President Maduro offers statement as Venezuelan citizens rally in defense of kidnapped migrants in El Salvador.
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00:00but over there they decided to attack the whole world and the fascists far right from here gave
00:16him a plan of aggression first against migrants that are being persecuted detained disappeared
00:25we have 238 migrants disappeared kept up in the United States and delivered to a
00:32concentration camp in El Salvador we are there doing all the legal actions a law firm presented
00:44a heavy scorpions before the justice in El Salvador in the United States migrant groups
00:52are also filing legal actions but they are being persecuted wherever they're found they're captured
01:00humiliated kidnapped and I will continue defending as steadfast as I am to rescue from the kidnapping
01:14and liberate all Venezuelans that are currently detained in the United States and of course the
01:20boys and girls in El Salvador will bring all those people back and those that are in Mexico
01:31as well fortunately we recently brought a plane with a lot of patience we have built a strong
01:42airliner they stole planes from us but it's still strong they won't be able to be able to they won't
01:50be able to surpass us they won't be able to overcome us because it's not just one man it's
01:56not Maduro it's a decisive people that choose to be free rebellious empowered aware loving heroic
02:08and Bolivarian now all those young men and women we will bring them back we are a team and we have
02:18a great team and we are determined all of them will return to their families because they're
02:26separating families and they're giving us only men they're being separated over there in a city
02:38they enter a home and they beat the boy put him in handcuffs on his hands and feet and they lower
02:47his head right before the eyes of his two minors and his wife his pregnant wife they put a chain
02:56on there and she's not allowed to leave the home and I demand the US government respect
03:02for human rights of Venezuelan migrants which are people of good values and that girl we are
03:16also going to rescue her she's currently kidnapped in her home and I'm determined on this and I say
03:22this how did this happen how this all this migration happened with the first sanctions
03:29they hurt us a lot and then came the campaigns on the internet first on Twitter then on Instagram
03:42then on Facebook come come and find the American dream first was the Peru Peruvian dream and how
03:49many people did go to Peru and failed the Chilean dream the same the ruling class of Chile the
03:57political class of Chile hates Venezuela they envy us because we liberated all of South America
04:06including them the Chileans if not they will still be a colony
04:19now after all these trips the Peruvian Ecuadorian Chilean the coyotes the coyotes
04:27Lopez Machado and Guaidó they began to earn money I'm amazed they'll see you were there
04:36Celia you as well you were there in the meeting it was surprising because you know this because
04:45some of your grandchildren also left and some have returned and the rest they will all return
04:53sooner than later we will have them all here I always fulfill my word and I'm determined to do
05:03it I've spoken with the mothers of some of these young men and I've spoken also with a lot of the
05:13ones that have returned here we have Mireles Caciques the mother of Francisco Javier who was
05:25kidnapped but is currently in El Salvador he already has his lawyers they have not allowed
05:33the lawyers to see them in that jail where they are being kidnapped not a single crime were
05:40committed in the United States we were actually going to pick them up on Friday but there was a
05:46storm in Texas a sandstorm and the flight was canceled they canceled the plane and then on
05:57Saturday everything was here ready with the plane was on to go and pick them up and then they say
06:03no you cannot come there is a sandstorm and then on Sunday they were kidnapped and humiliated and
06:10beaten and tortured in El Salvador is that democracy is that justice is that respect
06:19for human rights but it's surprising what I'm about to tell you so you understand and you see
06:30how coyotes work the criminal demands of coyotes from Venezuela they were being led by Carlos
06:38Becchio in the States Carlos Papadoni you can write them down Carlos Becchio Carlos Papadoni
06:46Miguel Pizarro David Smolansky Kremov Krem from the fascists also Leopoldo Lopez Maria
07:02Corina Machado from here from Venezuela Julio Borges among others so they coordinated everything
07:14and they had a lot of power in the United States because all of a sudden a man Pedro from a
07:19neighborhood in Petare would pay he would sell his motorcycle his home and he would that he will pay
07:27all those all that money and they will take him from Petare through Darién and in five weeks he
07:34was in New York is that even possible without complicity from powers in the United States
07:44they had a lot of power and they still do why why the FBI the CIA why has the US power protected
08:01these coyotes that were involved with human trafficking and they became wealthy who did
08:13they benefit a lady told us from Maracay in a neighborhood the young man paid seven thousand
08:31dollars and in five weeks he was in Boston if I had a map of the United States I will explain to
08:41you so we can understand geographically the first thing how to get there to Texas and then from
08:49Texas they take you very comfortably all the way out to New York to Boston to Pennsylvania to
08:55Philadelphia Michigan which are states that are in the northeast of the country or in the center
09:07Atlanta Georgia in Chicago it was a grand operation to take people from Venezuela but
09:21what is even worse still is that they get filthy wealthy with what they got from the migrants for a
09:33year or two migrants that came to be due to sanctions and blockade while they safe in
09:39Chile Peru and Ecuador and Colombia it is calculated that from Chile Peru Ecuador and
09:47Colombia at least 500,000 migrants were taken from these four countries by the coyotes all the way
10:00to the US and they were all charged different tariffs from 5,000 to 7,000 to $10,000 and that's
10:07told by the people that have returned and many of them tell that now is a great big business to come
10:14back from there because most of them want to return to Venezuela and coyotes are also charging
10:29them $5,000 $7,000 $10,000 to bring them back to Venezuela and illegally through the border from
10:37the US border with Mexico we would like that the US government put aside the lies that it's telling
10:50they say that there was a plan by our government to invade the United States and that we invaded
11:00with the ill-named Traynaragua gang so so that you understand people from the States the ban of
11:19the Traynaragua work in the interest of the opposition that you have supported here in
11:26Venezuela Ivan Duque the president of Colombia took the criminal bands including the one from
11:32the ones from Venezuela and Traynaragua back to Colombia and from there is strengthened Leopoldo
11:39Lopez led the relations personally with the Traynaragua and the FBI has a lot of recording
11:47of this if they wanted to do the investigation so don't let yourself be deceived government of the
11:54United States stop repeating what is a clear lie and any insult to the human intelligence and to
12:05the intelligence of the people of the States it's an insult to say that Venezuela created a plan to
12:13invade the United States no open your eyes it was due to the sanctions and blockades that you put
12:21against our economy and the migrants are returning have returned on their own free will because we
12:29have recovered Venezuela and we will finish recovering it as a whole to unify the Venezuelan
12:36family all families will be reunited we don't have to go abroad for anything we have everything in
12:45here and we're going to continue building moving forward we have to we don't have to look for
12:50anything abroad well unfortunately due to the same economic situation
13:01all of a sudden a friendship from the abroad tells them well here I have a car I have the latest
13:09iphone and not only one I have two and I have an apartment and I have a bike and of course
13:15a young man will get excited how much do you earn over there then they will say three thousand and
13:20then of course he will go and you know what he found not an iphone or two or a car not a bike
13:28no they found slave work all day free works at the same time seven days a week without rest
13:39but that boy and that girl and that family they work honestly that is why I reject I completely
13:48reject in the name of god almighty and the creator I reject the lies that the Venezuelan migration
13:57are criminal or belong to the trend that agua and no to migrate is not a crime and our migrants are
14:05honest people working people honest and we have to condemn this today there was a great rally
14:13here in Caracas in solidarity with the family members of the people kidnapped in El Salvador
14:17and the United States in solidarity with our migrants and in more than 100 cities in the world
14:24there were rallies and acts of solidarity with Venezuela
14:29so a wave of solidarity with our people begins to rise and we are good and if if we are good at
14:38something is to fight and is to swim against the current and is to win I mean the worst
14:44challenges that's where we are at our best we are warriors
14:48we are warriors
14:54and they'll see I'm saying all this because firstly I'm obliged to to guide to give an opinion
15:03to raise the strength and conscience of our people and the people of our world from Venezuela from
15:08Caracas but we have found our way in the economic field a new production model self-sustained
15:22and diversified to guarantee within Venezuela everything I said this yesterday in Guayana
15:30I went to Expo Metal 2025
15:35we have everything we need right here to continue on our way as a towards a solid economy
15:43and that's in the economic aspect but in the social aspect Chavez gave us the greatest legacy
15:50and it was the missions and the great missions and following that legacy we have founded the
15:56missions the great visions of new generations and I'm telling you
16:03and I will tell you this very slowly before giving the floor to Delce with love
16:11to all our people youth our workers
16:18women
16:18and farmers
16:24students teachers
16:26but above all here today in our in this beautiful home this historical
16:32facility which will be preserved for the years to come I'll tell you
16:40as I like to say
16:41whether it rains thunder or lighting the great missions will continue their path of consolidation
16:54to bring about the greatest social welfare the greatest social security for our people
17:01and those that are doing plans to harm the people will be defeated again we will defeat them
17:11we
17:27well mr president we are very happy to be here because if anyone deserves our respect and
17:32acknowledgement are the grandparents of the homeland the ones that have been on the front
17:37resisting the criminal blockade and also mr president today it is the grandparents the
17:42one defending their grandchildren who are kidnapped in El Salvador being mistreated
17:48in the United States and mr president here in this beautiful home that we are inaugurating today
17:53all this president I have to say this every day the president was supervising what was going on
18:00asking how what how the development was going always trying to know what was going to happen
18:07with the grandparents and I want to say this to Marco Rubio's a despicable man
18:12him and Machado because while you were planning how to bring well-being to our people despite
18:19challenges they were thinking on how to harm Venezuela how to attack Venezuela
18:25and if someone has put a break to those savages have been the grandparents of the homeland which
18:31have told them we won't return to what was the fourth republic when our grandparents were sick
18:38and they were abandoned and water was thrown against them and tear gas when they came out to
18:44ask for their medicines so I would say mr president that here we have a historic memory
18:50of what was a humiliation to our grandparents in the fourth republic but it's also the hope
18:55of the homeland because at the one point the way to our children to their children the
18:59grandchildren and the strength that our grandparents have I've not seen it anywhere
19:04I've only seen it in them that smile that desire to dance and to fight Venezuela with the same
19:11enthusiasm with which they dance and that's why it's very important to move forward in two aspects
19:19the aspect of organizing social clubs for grandparents we have over a million of
19:26grandparents over three million grandparents registered from 60 years and above
19:32meaning us that we have to organize our own social social club
19:38what let's see what she has to say let's give a clap and applaud for the first lady
19:50well the first thing is to congratulate all the grandparents
19:57for this amazing home for grandparents first the location where it is located a strategic place
20:04and a beautiful space this is a spectacular to tell the truth we were going around and we saw
20:11all the different spaces we saw that you have a dining room we saw
20:19we saw a place where the grandparents were watching a movie of Felipe Rivera
20:23and they were enjoying this we also went by the by the hairdresser as the grand
20:30grandmothers were getting beautiful as it has to be and also the grand grandfathers
20:35as well over there in the barber shop so this is very spectacular so
20:43this space this strength that we receive here from the grandparents
20:52there is no way to explain this anyone would say this with grandparents the strength well the
20:58strength is the accumulated strength of love while we are receiving here today the accumulated
21:03energy of love what we are receiving here today and according in regards to the comments on the
21:11migrants we have to remember that many of those young men and women that migrate at that time
21:18they were being deceived it was a great con first they imposed sanctions to harm the families in
21:25Venezuela the Venezuelan women the grandparents
21:31those sanctions were straight to affect us and they kept the campaign to offer dreams and
21:40over there they will have everything and they offer everything that they could imagine
21:46as the president said and many young men and women left deceived but that was a great business
21:54what those people did was business with our young men and women and the most affected are
21:59the grandparents and the mothers who were here alone fighting and struggling
22:08that those people that left returned at some point so the business continued
22:14because then the coyotes charged for taking them away then Julio Borges and made a campaign
22:23saying that all the migrants from Venezuela were criminals they were the worst of the worst
22:28a threat for the world that's what they said to try to so that all that campaign affects
22:35the Bolivarian government the revolutionary government and all those good men and women
22:40that were there working will be impacted so the business continued and they charged them over
22:47there in the United States and in all the regions that they were to bring them to a place where they
22:52were used as cannon fodder those young men and women were used as cannon fodder because then when
22:58they believe that their time has come now came the campaign that they were all criminals that
23:04they all belong to the Tren Aragua all migrants belong to the Tren Aragua they're all criminals
23:11around business to charge them and find a way to bring them out and then also politically to
23:18create out a campaign and they began to charge for this in El Salvador for every young man that
23:26they receive they're paid so it's a business they're paying for these people and what did
23:32the president of El Salvador said that he needed the money because with that money
23:37that he was going to receive for every man and woman that the U.S. government is paying
23:43they will use it for their development slaving these young people and putting them to work is
23:49part of the development so it's something really macabre what they have done with the issue of
23:54migration that's why the president and the people united we have to be more than ever united to
24:04achieve what the president is saying all the people all the migrants all the families
24:09have to return to Venezuela to continue working here in Venezuela to make our homeland prosperous
24:16and that's what it has been decreed they will all return and Venezuela will continue moving forward
24:23and that's thanks to the strength of all of you men and women grandparents
24:29with that strength nothing can stop us because those young people out there have the solidarity
24:36from us here and the president is not alone and you are not alone we are united and we will
24:42continue united for that objective Mr. President all our migrants will return
24:50we could say a slogan that we have for fascism and imperialism we have a slogan
24:56they will not return but for our young men and women they will return to their beloved homeland
25:05we will go look for them it's the only place in the world
25:09that employs our own planes to go and pick them up with love and dignity
25:20and we have been saying four aspects there are two which are
25:25vital which like the social clubs of the grandparents if you already have 58 000
25:31on may 8th we celebrate the first anniversary
25:39to ask for a hundred thousand will be a lot to two million grandparents
25:47so the new goal is to go all the way to a hundred thousand social clubs for grandparents
25:53and two billion men and women
25:55from the best of ages the happy happy times because this is our age the happy age
26:05that's the goal and the other goal that we have to fulfill with all our efforts
26:15because i propose a grandparent center per municipality so it's 335 so it's time to work
26:25so pay attention governors mayors these are the priorities
26:35pay attention communal circuits for the consultations that come now
26:40put there as well the construction of the center for grandparents of that communal circuit
26:47vamos entonces
26:51so we are going because we have good news that coming all the way from january 23rd
26:59over there in the former
27:03the former institution we have
27:06we have these two colleagues to inaugurate the home of the grandparents over there in january 23rd
27:14go ahead
27:19good afternoon mr president welcome to our to our parish here for us it's a pleasure and an
27:26honor to be able to create these spaces so that our elderly can live their life and can develop