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Venezuelan official urges migrant youths to come back and build the “future we deserve”

The President of Venezuela’s National Assembly (AN, Parliament), the chavista Jorge Rodríguez, invited all migrant youths to return to the country and, as he said, help build the “prosperous homeland” during a speech on Wednesday before hundreds of supporters who were commemorating Youth Day.

“We extend a hand to all the young people, anywhere in the world, and we tell them, come back sisters, come back brothers, this is your land, this is your homeland, we welcome you with open arms,” said Rodríguez in a speech outside the Legislative Palace in Caracas, where the demonstration concluded.

Rodríguez urged young people to return with their knowledge and strength to help build the “prosperous homeland” and the future they deserve.

“Here we want you, here we love you (…) come on, we are waiting for you to build together the homeland we deserve, the future we deserve,” he said, recalling that 190 migrants deported from the United States arrived in Venezuela on Monday, who, as he stated, came from “sadness, persecution, and shame.”

International

Trump and Putin to hold talks on Ukraine war resolution

U.S. President Donald Trump is set to speak with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday, in what could be a turning point in efforts to end the war in Ukraine and an opportunity for Trump to continue reshaping U.S. foreign policy.

Trump mentioned the upcoming conversation while traveling aboard Air Force One from Florida to Washington on Sunday night, while the Kremlin confirmed Putin’s participation on Monday morning.

“We’ll see if we have something to announce, maybe on Tuesday. I’ll be speaking with President Putin on Tuesday,” Trump stated. “A lot of work has been done over the weekend. We want to see if we can bring an end to this war.”

Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov confirmed that a call between the two leaders is planned for Tuesday, but declined to provide details, stating that “we never get ahead of events” and that “the content of presidential conversations is never subject to prior discussion.”

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Peruvian fisherman survives 95 days adrift, guided by his mother’s memory

On December 6, 2024, Máximo Napa, an experienced Peruvian fisherman, set sail from the southern port of Marcona, heading into waters as familiar to him as his own home. However, after ten days, a storm pushed his boat off course, leaving him adrift for 95 days. Throughout his ordeal, the thought of his mother gave him the strength to hold on to life.

“The only thing I wanted was to return to Pisco, to my mother, because she was the reason I clung to life,” the 61-year-old fisherman told América Televisión after being discharged from the hospital.

Napa lost all contact with the world on December 21. He was finally rescued on March 11 by a large fishing vessel in Ecuadorian waters, approximately 558 nautical miles (about 1,000 kilometers) from where he had initially set sail.

News of his miraculous rescue quickly reached his family in Ica, the region where both Marcona and Pisco are located. Upon his return in the early hours of Monday, he reunited with his mother in an emotional homecoming, marking the end of a harrowing survival journey.

“It was a miracle. 95 days… after a month, I had nothing left, no supplies, and I thought, ‘this is the end for me.’ But I thought of God, my mother, my children, and my little granddaughter—I met her just before I left for this fishing trip,” Napa recalled.

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Maduro condemns U.S. for labeling venezuelan migrants as criminals

Nicolás Maduro, who was sworn in as president on January 10 following his highly disputed re-election, stated on Monday that labeling Venezuelan migrants as criminals is the “greatest act of hostility” by the United States against the Caribbean nation.

“Labeling Venezuelan migrants as criminals, terrorists, and murderers is the greatest act of hostility and injustice ever committed by the United States of America against a Latin American and Caribbean nation,” the Chavista leadersaid during his television program Con Maduro+.

Maduro criticized the Alien Enemies Act, invoked by U.S. President Donald Trump, which led to the deportation of over 200 Venezuelans to El Salvador, calling it “completely outdated and illegal.”

“A law from 1798—that’s 228 years ago—an obsolete law whose original justification is unknown,” he remarked.

The Venezuelan president also stated that he had signed a set of communications addressed to the United Nations (UN), the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the International Organization for Migration (IOM), the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR), and several regional leaders, whom he did not specify. The purpose of these communications, he said, is to activate human rights mechanisms for the protection of Venezuelan migrants.

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“It is unacceptable that a person is captured, detained, and denied the right to legal defense and due process just because they are Venezuelan,” Maduro criticized. “They are thrown into U.S. detention centers and then sent to Nazi-style concentration camps in El Salvador,” he added.