Statements by the Attorney General of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Tarek William Saab, on the Venezuelans kidnapped in El Salvador. teleSUR
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00:00Family members of human beings, not beasts, know that the one who advised, the one who
00:13referred, who said and justified to carry out these actions from Venezuela was a person
00:27I'm sure is already burning in the bellies of the underworld, and you know her by the
00:32name of Maria Corina Machado.
00:35She's the mastermind of this action, and she said it publicly, supported an outlaw named
00:46Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia, that claims to be sad in Spain and don't allow him to travel.
00:59You have made parties with stolen money, going across countries where he's a mockery.
01:07I have information that he's the roots of jokes, of how low he goes, of how ridicul
01:15he is, that doesn't even pay attention to the simple courtesies.
01:25This subject also justified and promoted and spread advice to carry out this action, and
01:32who else has supported this, because it must be known, Leopoldo Lopez, Carlos Belchio,
01:38Juan Guaidó, Ed Smolansky, and all those outlaws.
01:51This law from the 18th century has 227 years, and it's a law from the 18th century.
01:59To put an example that comes and is applied in Venezuela, laws and decrees from the times
02:13of the colony, what would happen?
02:18What would happen if we did something like that here?
02:22It's also a law for times of war, so in order to implement these laws in the United States,
02:28it must be at war with another country, supposedly like it could have happened when this law
02:38was created.
02:39This law was created based on a likely confrontation the United States was going to have with France.
02:49So now, based on this law, they were sent to El Salvador.
02:56El Salvador, which is a signer, a signatory of the Rome Statute, is now a country that
03:05is the home base of crimes against human rights that has to be known by the international
03:11court.
03:12Bukele says that they are detained for a year, so it's something that cannot be defined,
03:25where they have not had any access to any kind of defense.
03:30We suggest that they could stay there for even longer.
03:35This law doesn't demand the United States to prove any illegal actions or threats by
03:41those that are affected.
03:42It also doesn't distinguish between legal or illegal residents.
03:46It means if there is a Venezuelan that has lived in the United States for 30, 40 years,
03:52they can also be detained and sent to El Salvador.
04:00I said this at the beginning.
04:03Any person that commits a crime has to be prosecuted in accordance with the law, taken
04:10before a trial, and have access to defense.
04:14And after that, in accordance to what the judge rules, so the crime against humanity
04:25that has been committed is that a country that is signatory of the Rome Statute is the
04:35one committing it.
04:37I want to highlight for those that don't know the Article 7 of the Rome Statute, I'm going
04:43to read it clearly.
04:44Over there it's established that Article 7, a crime against humanity, has the characteristics
04:53of being a generalized attack like it has been.
04:58Now every day they are sending little by little new deportees to El Salvador.
05:04In the evening they talk about 15, which are added to those 238.
05:11It has to be a generalized attack, a systematic attack against a civilian population.
05:18In this case, the civilian population is the Venezuelan.
05:22Another specific aspect that is included in this Article 7 is deportation of forced movement
05:30of the population, persecution of a group without own identity founded on political
05:38motives, racials, among others.
05:41Here the motive is that they are Venezuelans.
05:47Other inhumane acts similar that create great suffering or attempt gravely against physical
05:54integrity or physical health and mental health of the people.
05:59That's why we demand that the habeas corpus, there's a habeas corpus that has been filed
06:04by lawyers in El Salvador and is in the hands of the Constitutional Court, be declared,
06:14be approved.
06:15What does the Supreme Court of Justice say in El Salvador?
06:20We are in contact with several of its magistrates, and what do they say?
06:23We send them a letter, which we'll make public in the next days.
06:29What do they say about this?
06:32Are they also going to turn a blind eye to a legal recourse, a habeas corpus that exists
06:38according to legislation in El Salvador to pay attention to these kind of cases?
06:45So we are waiting for the answers for what the Supreme Court of Justice of El Salvador
06:52will say.
06:53They are talking about democracy.
06:54They are attacking Venezuela.
06:56But here not only works the public ministry, the Supreme Court, and we fight against criminality.
07:08Those that need to be put in jail go to jail.
07:12Those that need to be condemned, they receive their corresponding sentence.
07:17Those who deserve a smaller sentence, it is granted based on a trial.
07:25What is now happening in El Salvador, they cannot turn a blind eye to this.
07:30I am, as a prosecutor of the Republic, I demand a statement from the Court of Justice in El
07:39Salvador based on that habeas corpus.
07:42They cannot shelve it because it is already public and it is very well known that the
07:47habeas corpus has been filed.
07:48They cannot claim that it doesn't exist because it is known that they pretend to say that
07:53it doesn't exist, to leave it shelved for life.
07:59And they cannot do this because they again are stabbing the Constitution of El Salvador
08:07and international treaties that govern these matters, which are the foreign international
08:15law of human rights.
08:20Here compatriots have their defense.
08:25The Venezuelan state is protecting their rights.
08:31President himself of the Bolivarian Republic, President Nicolas Maduro, has met with a great
08:36majority of those that are here present today, and what he has offered he has fulfilled,
08:43and we will continue to fulfill and stay alert to achieve a great victory, which will be
08:49the freedom of all these compatriots that deserve our applause for their bravery, our
08:55dignity to defend their families.
09:00Because besides the crime, which is public and notorious, of kidnapping and the forced
09:05disappearance, they pretend also to criminalize them.
09:12Is there any question?
09:14Luis Guillermo from Telesur.
09:31Good morning to all.
09:33Without doubt, we can see that what is happening with the case of the compatriots that are
09:41in El Salvador is part of a kind of conspiracy that is occurring at the international level
09:47against Venezuela, and there is a case that is subscribing this matter, and it's that
09:53the Chilean prosecutors through Angel Valencia, the prosecutor, together with the Chilean
10:00government through the foreign ministry, they gave to the International Criminal Court a
10:10request to accuse Venezuela for the assassination of Ronald Ojeda, whose crime happened a year
10:18ago in Chile.
10:21As you know, the foreign ministry of Venezuela released a public statement saying that taking
10:27this kind of case to the International Criminal Court is unsustainable, and it's an evidence
10:35of the ignorance that the Chilean government has on the international government, and the
10:40wrong statute that you mentioned on several occasions today.
10:43So what does Venezuela know about this case that is happening, which comes together with
10:49this conspiracy to destabilize Venezuela, and checking other foreign media, we can see how
10:59a narrative is being created against Venezuela, and the aggression against Venezuela is being
11:04silenced.
11:05Well, firstly, as public ministry, as the Attorney General of the Republic, I must say
11:15I don't see a president in the Western Hemisphere of a more pirate investigation, more mediocre,
11:25more ridiculous investigation, full of legal emptiness and loopholes, than that which they
11:33supposedly, the Chilean general prosecutor, is doing regarding Ronald Ojeda.
11:41That's the first thing.
11:42The same happens in an infamous way, it goes to history, of what must not be done in terms
11:50of law, what must not be done in terms of criminal investigation.
12:00This is what must not be done, this is a lesson of what must be done, a masterclass, but of
12:09the worst and stupidest things, and cowardly things, I would say as well, that not only
12:15links the Chilean prosecutor, but also the president of that nation, which we know is
12:24a person that has basic problems in his mental health, that sometimes doesn't even know if
12:34he's going to walk right or left, that falls when he rides, that he's not aware of what
12:38he's speaking, and he has been the spokesman against Venezuela, using the case of Ronald
12:44Ojeda, using lawfare, judicial war, against what is the hybrid war to harm and tarnish
12:52the image of Venezuela.
12:57So this, I directly accused President Gabriel Boric of orchestrating this, of course following
13:03the narrative that we then see in El Salvador and the United States, that all Venezuelans,
13:11everything that happens in the world, is the responsibility of a gang that no longer exists,
13:18ill-named at this moment, El Tren de Aragua.
13:22And that is all part of what, unfortunately, people that said to be left, and he's not.
13:30Boric belongs to a far-right government, heirs of Pinochet, that used some languages
13:35of the left at some point, and that's also known on CIA documents that that kind of left
13:42in Latin America and Europe could have been infiltrated to divide the revolutionary movement,
13:48as they did in Chile, and to prevent that Jauregui was the candidate for the presidency.
13:55Also today, he's being imprisoned due to this small dictator known as Boric.
14:07Therefore I could say that the investigations that the Venezuelan state carried out, and
14:11the public ministry regarding the case of Ojeda, it foreshowed who was he, who was the
14:20lieutenant.
14:21He was arrested for military conspiracy against the highest authority of the state, being
14:28charged for three crimes, rebellion and betrayal to the homeland.
14:33Colonel Ojeda was part of the planning of a coup d'etat led by General Angel Omar Vivas,
14:41Perdomo, together with other 11 members of the army.
14:47So we have to know who is this person.
14:54But this is a small background of who he was.
14:59They planned to attack military units, and they planned to attack President Nicolás
15:04Maduro.
15:05For this fact, Ojeda was put in prison, in a military prison in Ramo Verde.
15:12When he was being trialed, he escaped on November 31st.
15:20The moment he was being moved from the tribunal to the center of the penitentiary.
15:29In this moment, a person was injured and another one was killed.
15:37He was the one that killed them.
15:39Then he fled first to Peru, and finally he appeared in Chile.
15:43And being there in Chile, he stayed participating actively in actions that looked for violently
15:49attempt against the Venezuelan state.
15:54And he's also involved in the White Bracelet Operation dismantled in 2024, when he tried
16:03to enter illegally to a country.
16:07Who said everything that Oreda did, Angelo.
16:12And thanks to his statements, we could determine his involvement in White Bracelet.
16:18Now February 21st, in the year 2024, he was kidnapped in his apartment in Santiago, Chile,
16:26by a group of uniformed men of the investigative police of Chile, who took him to an unknown
16:34place until, after the search of his body, he was found buried in a popular area in Santiago.
16:48Ivan Simonovich is the one that is talking about all of this, involved in the coup d'etat
16:55against Hugo Chavez in 2002, leading a criminal police that killed dozens of people during
17:02the coup d'etat.
17:04Simonovich promotes from Miami that Oreda had been kidnapped by Venezuelan officials.
17:17Only a minute after it had happened, he already had the video.
17:20So explain to me, how could he have the video before it came to the public?
17:25So who gave the video to him?
17:27The assassins that were involved in a way with arms trafficking.
17:33The Chilean prosecutor at that moment led an investigative line, which was the settling
17:42between criminals.
17:45The Chilean prosecutor said that that was the line of investigation.
17:51But all of a sudden, Boric, I'm sure he gave the order, without giving any explanation
18:01to what they had already said at the beginning.
18:04He changed it, that it had been a kidnapping and a homicide for political reasons.
18:11And surprisingly enough, once again the trend of Aragua comes up.
18:19There is a landslide in the North Pole, and they're going to blame it on a Venezuelan
18:24belonging to the trend of Aragua.
18:26Someone falls from a building somewhere, and they're going to say that it was due to a
18:30Venezuelan that belonged to the trend of Aragua.
18:33And that's why you're going to continue hearing barbarities like this, to justify the plot,
18:40all the narrative against Venezuela, which we cannot accept, because this will never
18:47have an end.
18:48Anything that happens in the world is going to be linked to a Venezuelan, and that's going
18:53to give him the infamous brand that he's part of this dismantled gang.
19:03So after the first suspicion, they went to the circumstances that I already pointed out,
19:09and have said several times everything they have done in order to dismantle the trend
19:14of Aragua.
19:15By the way, a brother of one of the leaders of this extinct band was detained on March
19:227th in Madrid.
19:23He had a detention order from Venezuela, Harrison Isaac Guerrero, and he was extradited to Venezuela.
19:37And this happened on July 11th last year, a judicial victory for our country.
19:44So what I can answer, and to summarize, is that it's obvious that it's a false flag
19:53operation to tarnish the image of the Bolivarian revolution and democracy, and they cannot
19:59achieve this.
20:00And the most ridiculous that they can do now is that they disregard the same status from
20:07the Rome Statute, and something that happens in El Salvador, as said by the Chilean prosecutor,
20:13they wanted to turn it, and they didn't manage to do it.
20:15It didn't have any echo anywhere.
20:17They didn't have any repercussion, like if it was an action involved with the Venezuelan
20:21state, so that it wasn't investigated by the criminal prosecutors.
20:27But the criminal prosecutors should actually investigate the atrocities committed against
20:34innocents in Chile, pensioners, retirees, the young people, without a doubt the people
20:40of Chile, at the era of great glories.
20:50People have given great teachings of civility, great poets like Gabriela Mistral, Raul Zolita,
20:58Pablo Neruda, among so many others.
21:00And I'm sure that sooner than later, the true essence of what was the patriotic left
21:13of that country will remove this small bastard stepson of Pinochet, because that's what he
21:22is.
21:24That government and all its allies that use the narrative of attacking Venezuela to do
21:31political campaign.
21:32Everyone knows this.
21:33There are candidates of that movement, of that Mr. Boric's, that want to use the subject
21:38of Venezuela to do electoral campaign.
21:43How low can they fall?
21:45Present a project of government, a political project, be loyal to your youth.
21:52La Piñera may disappear, where are all those flags of struggle that you betrayed?
21:58So now Venezuela is the epicenter of attacks of that government, that is a far-right government
22:05that has nothing to do with the revolutionary left.
22:08And we will continue to defend our brothers, Venezuelan brothers, you can count on us,
22:14mothers, grandmothers, parents of these young men and boys that sooner than later will return
22:20to the homeland.
22:21Thank you very much.