Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro with members of the Communes Youth Committees in Caracas, November 13, 2025. Photo: X/@Alfer_Unamo.
Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro condemned the United States government’s suspension of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Venezuelan migrants in the US.
“During the toughest years—2017, 2018, 2019, and 2020—false promises lured young people north. In the North, they are now being persecuted, subdued, beaten, handcuffed, disappeared, tortured, and then kicked out of the United States. Right now, over 300,000 Venezuelans have been stripped of their TPS, 150,000 of them young people,” President Maduro said at a meeting with members of the Commune Youth Committees held in Ezequiel Zamora Park in Caracas on Thursday, November 13.
“The US is persecuting Venezuelans and threatening Venezuela with an invasion,” he added.
In this regard, President Maduro called on Venezuelan youth to protect the national territory with determination. “The committees that we have launched are the starting point of a journey to make dreams a reality in your community, together with your family and friends, progressing with your own hard work,” he said.
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More organization, more mobilizations
Meanwhile, the vice president of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela Youth (JPSUV), Grecia Colmenares, emphasized that to confront the US empire’s aggression against the country and against Venezuelans still in the US, young people are responding with greater organization and more mobilizations.
“The commune is the real antidote to fascism, so we are heeding the call to organize. The greater the aggression, the more organization and mobilization,” Colmenares declared.
The Venezuelan government, by means of the Return to the Homeland Great Mission, is working to facilitate the return of Venezuelans whose Temporary Protected Status in the United States has been suspended. This was recently announced by the minister for the Interior, Justice, and Peace, Diosdado Cabello.
Translation: Orinoco Tribune
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