In El Salvador, social movements condemned the proposal of President Nayib Bukele to exchange kidnapped Venezuelan migrants in a maximum security prison in that country. They also described as hypocritical the president's affirmation that in his country there are no political prisoners. From San Salvador, our correspondent, Roberto Hugo Preza, with the details.
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00:00And precisely in El Salvador, social movements condemn the proposal of President Nayib Bukele
00:05to exchange, kidnapped Venezuelans migrants in a maximum security prison in that country.
00:11They also describe it as hypocritical, the president's affirmation that in his country
00:16there are no political prisoners.
00:18From San Salvador, our correspondent Robert Hugo Presa with the details.
00:23The organizations that make up the popular resistance and rebellion bloc
00:27raise their voices in condemnation of President Nayib Bukele's proposal
00:32to use imprisoned Venezuelan migrants as a bargaining chip.
00:38We have strongly repudiated the cynicism of the Bukele regime,
00:43who in a desperate attempt to wash its image before the international community
00:48has ended up accepting that it is holding Venezuelan citizens hostage publicly on its ex-account,
00:54an alleged prisoner exchange between Venezuela and El Salvador.
00:59This act is nothing more than a propaganda maneuver to hide its own repressive
01:05and criminal policy against the Salvadoran people.
01:08This social movement affirms that, in El Salvador, there is persecution of opponents and political prisoners.
01:27Historical leaders of the Salvadoran left persecuted for their legacy of revolutionary struggle,
01:37as in the case of Eugenio Chicas, members of social organizations such as Fidel Zavala,
01:44Atilio Montalvo, Pepe Molara, and other unionists.
01:48Environmental activists such as the defenders of Cabanas imprisoned for opposing mining and neoliberal plundering.
01:58Journalists and critical communicators silenced for denouncing human rights violations.
02:04The social movement regrets that El Salvador is adopting a strategy of interference.
02:19We regret and condemn that these acts of interference continue to be repeated.
02:26It is also regrettable the vocabulary used by President Bukele when referring to the government of Nicolas Maduro, of Comrade Nicolas.
02:35This is really a smokescreen.
02:45The FMLN also took a firm position.
02:48The Secretary General of the party considers that this is a maneuver previously planned by the global ultra-right.
02:53Why have only Venezuelans been brought to the Secote prison in El Salvador?
03:00Why not Peruvians?
03:02Why haven't they deported people from other countries?
03:06And this is precisely the question we are asking ourselves at the international level.
03:14It is a plot prepared by the fascist right wing of Venezuela, by Marco Rubio, by the U.S.,
03:20globalists, against countries that do not bow their heads before the pretensions of Donald Trump.
03:32Officially, the Supreme Court of Justice and the Salvadoran Prosecutor's Office have not responded to the request
03:37made public on Sunday by the Venezuelan prosecutor, who asked for details of the migrants in prison more than a month ago.
03:43Roberto Hugo Presa, Telesur, El Salvador.