Venezuelan Foreign Minister Ivan Gil on Wednesday accused the United States of “instrumentalizing” migration to undermine and facilitate sanctions against the socialist regime.
Mr. Gill followed Secretary of State Antony Blinken with his complaint to the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). announced The United States on Tuesday released a $578 million aid package to “partner countries” for Latin American migrants in the region, including millions of Venezuelan refugees who have fled their home countries seeking refuge from socialism. announced that it would be provided.
“USAID is a secret political agency. The charlatan and liar United States facilitates immigration to Venezuela and promotes sanctions against the Venezuelan people,” Gil wrote on social media. “As always, these funds directed to conspiracies will end up in the pockets of corrupt people in big shots. They will fail!”
La @you went Political management body. Farsantes and Mentirozos, Los EEUU promotes migration with Venezuela and Sanciones with Venezuelan pueblos. Dangerous costumes, dangerous conspiracies, Iranian insurgency… pic.twitter.com/1VZL8q3evG
— Ivan Gil (@yvangil) May 8, 2024
The State Department said the $578 million aid package announced by Secretary of State Blinken will “help communities respond to urgent humanitarian needs, expand legal channels, and support the regularization and integration of immigrants.” “It’s helpful.” Blinken made the announcement while attending a foreign ministers’ meeting on immigration in Guatemala this week.
A statement from the U.S. Department of State’s Office of the Press Secretary said:
The assistance announced in Guatemala advances the goals of the Los Angeles Declaration on Migration and Protection and addresses historic levels of displacement, with more than 22 million people displaced across the region, including more than 7.7 million Venezuelans. It will address humanitarian needs arising from the population.
Over the past decade, dictator Nicolas Maduro’s regime has unleashed an unprecedented migration crisis caused by socialist economic collapse and widespread human rights abuses. Venezuela’s migrant crisis is widely described as the worst crisis in the Western Hemisphere, comparable to the crises in Syria and Ukraine.
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Estimate As of September, at least 7.7 million Venezuelans had fled the country, approximately 27.5 percent of the country’s total population of 28 million.
The Center for Justice and Peace (CEPAZ) is a Venezuelan non-governmental organization. said On Wednesday, Venezuelan migrants, who had been arriving primarily in other Latin American countries, announced they were starting to choose to enter the United States more frequently. The number of Venezuelan immigrants bound for the United States has reportedly tripled in the past decade.
CEPAZ estimates that the Venezuelan population in the United States has increased by 600 percent over the past 20 years.
The Maduro regime has repeatedly attempted to downplay or completely deny the unprecedented Venezuelan migrant crisis that its “21st century socialism” has caused, and has refused to take any responsibility for the circumstances that led to its occurrence. I didn’t.
In 2022, at a UN dialogue in Geneva, representatives of the Maduro regime denied the existence of Venezuelan migrants, calling the mass refugee population a “hoax” aimed at tarnishing socialism’s reputation.
Just before the UN dialogue, Foreign Minister Gill announced that during his 2022 term, speech A letter signed by socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro was read at the United Nations General Assembly, stating that the Venezuelan migrant crisis is real, but that the United States and others are calling on the regime to respond to continued human rights abuses. It claimed that the incident was “caused” by state sanctions. The crime was committed against Venezuelans within the country.
In his letter, President Maduro also claimed that 60% of Venezuelan migrants had “returned” to their home country, although no evidence was provided for this statistic.
The Maduro government reportedly Since February, it has refused to accept deportation flights to bring Venezuelan migrants home from the United States, reneging on a previous agreement. signed The administration of US President Joe Biden in October 2023 called for the “orderly, safe and lawful” deportation of Venezuelan migrants.
The Biden administration has temporarily lifted oil and gas sanctions against Maduro’s government from October 2023 to April 2024 as part of a now-failed policy. plan Urge the Maduro government to hold “free and fair” presidential elections this year. Maduro’s government plans to hold a new sham presidential election on July 28 after repeatedly violating the terms of an agreement that led to oil and gas sanctions relief.
Francisco Palmieri, U.S. Charge d’Affaires to Colombia and head of the Venezuelan Affairs Unit (VAU) in Bogota. Said President Joe Biden’s administration said Monday it was ready to ease sanctions again if Maduro’s government promises “free and fair” elections.
Christian K. Caruso is a Venezuelan writer who chronicles life under socialism. You can follow him on Twitter here.
