President Nicolas Maduro rejects media campaign against Venezuelan migrants

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Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro denounced on Wednesday the start of a media campaign by the U.S. government and sectors of the Venezuelan right wing to brand Venezuelan migrants as criminals and link them to criminal organizations. teleSUR

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00:00And during his program Con Maduro Más, the President of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, condemned

00:05the media campaign that seeks to criminalize Venezuelan migrants regarding the arrival

00:09of 242 nationals through the plan Return to the Homeland.

00:13The President recalled that the Venezuelan migration was the result of the offensive

00:18campaign of criminal sanctions imposed by the United States.

00:21In this regard, President Maduro highlighted the work of the government in defense of the

00:25country's sovereignty by dismantling criminal groups operating under the orders of former

00:29Colombian Presidents Iván Duque and Álvaro Uribe, in complicity with the Venezuelan

00:34far right.

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