Caracas, January 25 (RHC)-- The First Vice President of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), Diosdado Cabello, denounced this Friday that the so-called "coyotes" -- responsible for facilitating the illegal transit of migrants through the Darien Jungle -- are linked to extremist sectors of the Venezuelan opposition.
Diosdado Cabello recalled Venezuela's historic role in the search for peace for Colombia, highlighting the efforts of Commander Hugo Chávez, who prioritized mediation in the Colombian conflict even over internal political campaigns.
Cabello described the sanctions against Venezuela as a form of “cognitive warfare” promoted by right-wing sectors in the region. Photo: VTV
Diosdado Cabello pointed out that this criminal structure uses migration as a business, ensuring that anyone who wants to cross through Darién has to be previously contacted by these networks.
In this sense, he assured: “It is not that I am going to go to Darién from here in Venezuela and leave. No, no. If you go to Darién and are not contacted by the coyotes you do not enter.”
The Minister of the Interior, Justice and Peace also criticized the fact that the United States allows these operations from its own territory, despite their impact on the regional migration phenomenon. “If the United States wants to resolve the issue of migration, it must go after the coyotes who make politics from its own territory,” he said.
He explained that Venezuelan emigration is the result of an economic crisis caused by the economic war of imperialism and attacks on the national currency, while Colombian migration is a response to the armed conflict and violence in their country.
He stressed that Venezuela has the Return to the Homeland plan to allow the return of compatriots and programs to reinsert them into the productive life of the country.
For her part, Tania Díaz urged Venezuelan mothers to prevent their children from being manipulated by opposition sectors, whom she denounced for using young people as a “weapon of war.”
He denounced that the radical opposition uses migration as a political and economic tool for its own ends.
In his statements, Cabello stressed the importance of achieving lasting peace in Colombia, a country that has been in armed conflict for more than 80 years. He emphasized that the war in Colombia not only affects its population, but also the entire region, including Venezuela, Ecuador and Bolivia.
"Our America will be better if there is peace in Colombia. Those who believe that there is peace in Colombia are not seeing reality. They have been in war for 80 years and they do not want to end it for whatever reason. That affects us, Ecuador, Bolivia, and it affects all countries," he said.
[ SOURCE: teleSUR ]
