The Bolivarian Alliance applauds the efforts made by President Maduro to reunite the girl with her family.

On Thursday, the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA-TCP) celebrated the return of Maikelys Espinoza to Venezuela after she was rescued by the “Return to the Homeland”, a humanitarian program carried out by the administration of President Nicolas Maduro. The full statement follows:

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“ALBA-TCP applauds with great satisfaction the return to Venezuela of the little girl Maikelys Espinoza, after having been illegally separated for months from her family by U.S. immigration authorities and having been prevented from accompanying her mother on the repatriation flight to Venezuela three weeks ago.

The unjustified action, which violated the fundamental rights of the child, was based on a series of falsehoods and slander against Maikelys’ parents, contravening the purposes and principles of the United Nations Charter, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, international agreements on the protection of children and adolescents and due process.

The Bolivarian Alliance applauds and congratulates the Venezuelan government and President Nicolas Maduro for all the efforts made to reunite the little girl with her family and accompanies the Venezuelan people in their demand for the release of the 253 young Venezuelans kidnapped by the U.S. in a maximum security prison in El Salvador, under false accusations, without having committed any crime in that country, and without judicial process or the right to defense. Among them is Maiker Espinoza, Maikelys’ father.

ALBA-TCP demands respect for all human beings without distinction of race, color, sex, language, religion, political or any other opinion, national or social origin, economic position, birth or any other condition and urges the international community to repudiate and denounce the disproportionate and inhuman abuses of the U.S. government against migrant populations.”

Prior to the congratulations sent by ALBA-TCP to the Venezuelan government, the return of Maikelys to her mother’s arms in Venezuela was a cause for rejoicing for children’s rights advocates around the world.

On Wednesday, when commenting about the successful repatriation of Maikelys, Venezuelan Vice President Delcy Rodriguez confirmed that the Bolivarian government will continue working tirelessly until all Venezuelan migrants unjustly imprisoned in El Salvador return to their homeland.

“Today is a happy day for Venezuela, for all the mothers and grandmothers who have felt Maikelys’s suffering as their own! Our little girl is back! In the arms of her mother and grandmother. We also want the Venezuelans kidnapped by Bukele back,” she said on her Telegram account.

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Source: ALBA-TCP

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