Venezuela denounces U.S. for blocking migrant repatriation

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Venezuelan officials, including the head of Congress, Jorge Rodriguez, have stated that they are willing to resume direct flights from the U.S., but blame the U.S. State Department for blocking them. teleSUR

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00:00In Venezuela, the head of the Presidential Dialogue Commission, Jorge Rodríguez, denounced

00:04that the United States Department of State is hindering the repatriation flight of his

00:09countrymen.

00:10This is what he said in a meeting with relatives of the 238 Venezuelan citizens kidnapped in

00:17a prison in El Salvador after an illegitimate negotiation between the Secretary of State

00:23Marco Rubio and the Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele.

00:26The high official reiterated that the country has everything ready to carry out the repatriation

00:32process but the United States Foreign Office persists in blocking the process, while the

00:37courts continue to question the government's handling of the three flights of migrants

00:42that ended up in El Salvador.

00:52The Universal Declaration of Human Rights is being violated.

00:57The United Nations Charter is being violated.

00:59The Universal Convention on the Rights of the Child is being violated.

01:07All the existing conventions on migration and on migrant labor are being violated.

01:13At the same time we want to insist that Venezuela is ready.

01:21We have absolutely everything ready to resume flights from Venezuela to bring Venezuelan

01:26migrants from the United States of America.

01:32We are totally ready, we're just waiting for the necessary coordinations, the one who is

01:37blocking the flights is the State Department of the Government of the United States of

01:41America.

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