Venezuela's Interior Minister: Far-Right Opposition Leads Network of Coyotes Taking Migrants to US

Venezuelan right-wing leaders are running a criminal organization from the United States to transport migrants from Venezuela to the US, denounced the Venezuelan Minister for Interior Diosdado Cabello.

During a new podcast that he co-hosts with Congresswoman Tania Díaz, Cabello said that these criminal organizations are hidden behind figures such as Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) and are led by far-right politicians Carlos Vecchio, David Smolansky, Julio Borges, Leopoldo López, Juan Guaidó, and Miguel Pizarro.

“It’s not that I’m going to leave Venezuela for Darién and go, no, no, if you go to Darién and you are not in contact with the coyotes, you’re not in. The coyotes? (Carlos) Vecchio, (David) Smolansky, (Julio) Borges, (Leopoldo) López, Juan Guaidó, (Miguel) Pizarro, and others. The coyotes are a criminal structure that operates in the US. The US has those opposition criminals there. If the US wants to resolve or tackle the issue of migration, it has to go after the coyotes who make policy from the US,” he said.

In this regard, he said that if US President Donald Trump wants to capture and punish those responsible for the mobilization of the Aragua Train, he must look for them within his borders. “If Trump wants to blame someone for the Aragua Train, those responsible are there. Those who mobilized the Aragua Train are there. That is a great truth, and they (the US) know it. The FBI knows it,” he added.

Venezuela is prepared
Minister Cabello also said that the Venezuelan government is prepared to receive fellow Venezuelans who wish to return to the country.

He pointed out that the Maduro Administration has a repatriation policy that guarantees the return of migrants. “In countries where our planes have not landed to repatriate compatriots, it is because the government of that nation has not allowed it, such is the case of Peru and Chile,” he added.

Cabello also pointed out that this plan, The Return to the Homeland Program, includes a provision to help Venezuelans start their own businesses. He also said that US imperialism, with the support of its local allies, has used all existing techniques and experiments to try to defeat Chavismo.

He recalled the far-right’s campaign of manipulation against youth to convince them to leave Venezuela and “then, wherever they go, the doors are closed to them,” as well as the financing and organization of criminal groups to convince people that they have reasons to leave.

“Here in Venezuela, they have used all the world’s experiments. They have done everything to try to defeat the Bolivarian Revolution, to try to undermine the Revolution’s resistance,” Cabello said.

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Solidarity with Colombia
The revolutionary leader also said that Venezuela has always been in solidarity with the people of Colombia, who have suffered the ravages of the internal war that has continued for over 80 years.

“One of the reasons is the issue of solidarity, the human factor of this Revolution. We learned that from Commander Chávez and the great Cuban experience… We are trying to do our part, and with all the historical problems that Colombia has, Venezuela has intervened every time to contribute to peace,” said Cabello, referring to his visit to the Colombian-Venezuelan border, where emergency relief is being provided to displaced Colombians who arrive in Venezuela as a result of the violence affecting the Colombian Catatumbo region in recent weeks.

Cabello reported that all displaced people arriving in Venezuela are receiving comprehensive care. “I like to go to the sites because sometimes the reports are very nice, but what one sees with one’s own eyes is something else. That is why I went personally,” he added. He also said that the Colombian conflict is damaging the entire region, all of America.

(Últimas Noticias) by Gustavo Rangel

Translation: Orinoco Tribune

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