Venezuela warns citizens not to travel to 'dangerous' US and return home for safety

Published connected 02/06/2025 - 14:14 GMT+2•Updated 14:28

The Venezuelan authorities has told its citizens to debar travelling to nan US, while urging those surviving location to time off immediately.

In a recreation alert issued via a Telegram video connected Sunday, nan Venezuelan overseas ministry urged its compatriots to "protect their lives and those of their families and return to their homeland".

It described nan US arsenic a "dangerous state wherever quality authorities do not beryllium for immigrants".

"There is nary American dream there, only nightmares. Our work is to denounce this reality and request respect for our compatriots," nan ministry said.

Foreign Minister Yván Gil claimed that it was vulnerable to beryllium a Latino, Afro-descendant aliases Venezuelan migrant successful nan US. "The constabulary sprout first and inquire questions later," he said.

As grounds of nan US' persecution of migrants, Caracas cited nan lawsuit of hundreds of migrants who were deported to a maximum information situation successful El Salvador earlier this year.

Venezuela says nan deportees are surviving "under inhumane conditions" and are being "subjected to psychological torture".

Caracas' recreation informing comes aft nan US authorities issued its ain alert past Tuesday, urging its citizens not to recreation to Venezuela for immoderate logic and to time off nan state instantly because of nan precocious consequence of arbitrary detention.

In a statement, nan US State Department said location were "serious risks" of cruel detentions, convulsive crime and civilian unrest successful nan Latin American country.

According to nan charismatic note, Venezuela is nan state pinch nan highest number of unjustly detained US citizens.

The US does not person an embassy aliases consulate successful Venezuela, truthful it cannot connection consular assistance to its citizens there.

Last year, Venezuela's authoritarian leader Nicolás Maduro cracked down connected wide protests pursuing a disputed predetermination victory, pinch world experts accusing his management of wide quality authorities abuses.