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The young Venezuelan Dulce Alegría Pérez Rodríguez was traveling with her two children – 11 months and 3 years old – and her husband Noelvis Astudillo on the boat Mi Recuerdo.
They were some of the fatal victims who left Güiria, Sucre state, in Venezuela, on December 6, 2020; They were heading to Trinidad and Tobago.
“I attest that my relatives entered Trinidad with their two children, one 3 years old and the other 11 months old. And they were deported by the Trinidad Coastal Police. Today they are burying my relatives “says a cousin of the victim.
In a new statement, the Venezuelan government affirms that they found the bodies of 21 Venezuelans at sea, who were going to be reunited with their families at Christmas time.
According to the Minister of the International Parliament for Human Rights of Canada, Karla Henríquez, who is investigating the case, there were two boats full of Venezuelans, Mi Refugio and Mi Recuerdo, and there would be more than 50 fatalities, including at least 25 children.
“These vessels stepped on Trinidadian waters and one of them was returned, expelled, from Trinidad and Tobago without any type of registration by the government of that country,” said Henríquez.
The Government of Trinidad and Tobago issued a statement in which it denies that on December 6 or later dates they received vessels with Venezuelans. However, this Sunday. Venezuelans in Trinidad demanded information about their compatriots who were in one of these two vessels.
Human rights lawyers are investigating the case because many of the victims were mutilated.
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