Venezuela Accuses US of 'Kidnapping' 18 Migrant Children
- Venezuelan officials claim the United States has forcibly separated 18 migrant children from their parents, labeling it a "kidnapping" and a violation of human rights.
- Jorge Rodriguez, the Venezuelan National Assembly President, demanded the return of the children, calling the separations a "flagrant violation" of international law.
- Interior Minister Diosdado Cabello condemned the U.S. strategy of separating families and connected it to broader issues, such as human trafficking.
- President Nicolás Maduro sent a letter to Pope Leo XIV requesting intervention for the return of the children and condemned the U.S. immigration system.
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Maduro Gov’t Calls for the Return of 18 Venezuelan Children ‘Abducted’ in the US - Venezuelanalysis
Caracas, July 2, 2025 (venezuelanalysis.com) – The Venezuelan government called on the US to return 18 Venezuelan children whose migrant parents were detained and later deported without them. National Assembly President Jorge Rodríguez joined a group of mothers in demanding the children’s prompt return to their families in Venezuela. These women are recent arrivals who returned on deportation flights after being held in immigration centers and h…
On the night of June 30, the President of the National Assembly, Jorge Rodríguez, revealed that 18 Venezuelan children are still in the custody of the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) in the United States following the deportation of their parents on flights agreed by the White House with the government of President Nicolás Maduro. Caracas maintains that the detention of children is a flagrant kidnapping and demands their immediate repatriat…
Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro denounced this Monday the alleged kidnapping of 18 Venezuelan children in the United States. They were reportedly separated from their parents after the latter were deported by U.S. authorities.


The president of the National Assembly of Venezuela, Jorge Rodríguez, accused the United States this Monday of having “kidnapped” 18 Venezuelan minors between the ages of 1 and 9, having sent their parents to El Salvador or...
Maduro sends letter to Pope Leo XIV for kidnapped Venezuelan children
During his weekly Monday night program, “Con Maduro +,” the president signed the letter on behalf of the mothers and grandmothers of the children who were split from their families by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The letter is also intended to reach at the Catholic Church in the United States and El Salvador claiming the protection of the 252 migrants kidnapped in the latter country, as well as those held in detention centers in the…
Venezuela Condemns Abduction of 18 Minors by United States
On Monday, June 30, Venezuelan United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) Deputy Jorge Rodríguez condemned the “kidnapping” of 18 minors in the United States. He showed photographs of several children who remain detained by the US government, despite formal requests for their liberation by Venezuelan authorities. Rodríguez demanded that the UN high commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, and the UN resident coordinator in Venezuela, Gianluca…
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