Venezuela’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Yván Gil, thanked the firmness and dignity of Cuba and its Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez, who rejected a new punitive measure against the Bolivarian Republic, it was reported today in Caracas.
Gil said in Telegram that his Cuban counterpart condemned «the application of an anachronistic law to criminalise and stigmatise Venezuelan migration by the US government».
The Bolivarian foreign minister’s statement responded to a message from Rodríguez on the X platform, where he rejected «the unprecedented invocation by the US government of the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 under false pretexts».
The senior diplomat in Havana pointed out that with this measure the US executive escalates its «policy of hostility against the government and people of the Bolivarian Republic».
In a communiqué Venezuela the day before categorically and forcefully rejected the US government’s proclamation, which criminalises Venezuelan migration in an «infamous and unjust way».
The Foreign Ministry pointed out that this act evokes the darkest episodes in the history of humanity, from slavery to the horror of the Nazi concentration camps, citing the aforementioned Act.
It indicated that this presidential order is an anachronistic regulation that not only violates fundamental laws in force in the United States, «but also violates the international legal order in terms of human rights» and other agreements and principles of world legality.
Its attempted application constitutes a crime against humanity and a dangerous precedent against our entire region, he denounced, and affirmed that «the unity and solidarity of our America is the only possible response to this attempt at segregation, persecution and massive dispossession».
The Bolivarian government said that Venezuelan migrants who crossed borders in search of alternative ways of life did so for economic reasons as a result of the hardship created by the criminal blockade of the economy, «to perpetrate their plans for regime change in Venezuela».
He declared that the vast majority of migrants are hard-working, dignified and honest men and women, not terrorists, not criminals, not «foreign enemies», but victims.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs strongly denounced that compatriots in the United States «are being subjected to persecution in their workplaces, schools, churches, hospitals and public spaces».
With deep indignation we repudiate the threat of kidnapping of minors under 14 years of age; «never before in history has an official document gone to the extreme of summarily classifying children as members of terrorist groups», it emphasised.
Finally, he called urgently and immediately on the international community, and especially the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States, to mobilise in defence of the rights of our peoples and to denounce this aberrant action before the world.
