Venezuela's socialist dictator, Nicols Maduro, has pledged to "rescue" a two-year-old Venezuelan girl allegedly "kidnapped" by the U.S. and the 252 members of the Tren de Aragua deported to El Salvador.
In a bold assertion to migrants, he declared that "the real dream is Venezuelan."
The Venezuelan socialist regime orchestrated its 2025 "May Day" communist holiday celebrations around the narrative that American deportations of illegal Venezuelan migrants are "kidnappings" rather than lawful expulsions of lawbreakers. The regime has notably amplified the story of two-year-old Maikelys Espinoza, who they claim was "kidnapped" after her parents, both members of Tren de Aragua, were deported.
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) clarified last week that the child's parents entered the U.S. illegally and were involved in several criminal activities related to Tren de Aragua, including homicide, drug sales, extortion, sex trafficking, and kidnappings. Following her mother, Yorely Bernal's deportation to Venezuela, the child was placed in foster care, while the father is reportedly among the 252 Venezuelan Tren de Aragua members detained in El Salvador.
According to Breitbart, during his May Day speech at the "Great March of the Working Class" in Caracas, Maduro pledged to rescue the child and all the "kidnapped youth" in El Salvador, stating that "there will be justice in the U.S. or an extreme right-wing dictatorship will have been imposed. The people of the U.S. wonder which path their nation will take."
Maduro emphasized that he would hold opposition leader Mara Corina Machado and other Venezuelan "opposition" figureheads accountable for the child's fate. He accused Machado and other Venezuelan politicians of perpetuating the "narrative" that the Venezuelan migrants in the United States are "Tren de Aragua delinquents."
"From Petare [the largest slum in Venezuela], today, May 1, before more than a million men and women who have mobilized in Caracas and before the millions who mobilized throughout the country, sooner rather than later, we are going to rescue our girl Maikelys Espinosa and the 253 kidnapped in El Salvador safe and sound," Maduro proclaimed.
During his speech, Maduro articulated his "vision" for Venezuela's future and asserted to Venezuelan migrants many of whom fled from socialism that "the real dream is the Venezuelan dream, where we build the true diversified economy and production together with the workers."
"We have to follow the path of defending our land, it is our mission. I say it to all migrants, the only true homeland is called Venezuela, and we must take care of it," Maduro stated. "We cannot allow people without values and gratitude. Open your eyes."
"If you want a better country, lets join the fight. The homeland belongs to all of us, except to the criminals," he continued. "The people must say no to fascism and yes to peace, to the future, to family reunion and to life."
The childs mother, Yorely Bernal, spoke to the regimes main state-media propaganda outlet VTV on Thursday and claimed that the Trump administration never gave a valid reason for taking the child away from her before she was deported.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) told me I was going to court, but I indicated that I didnt want to give up my daughter. They never explained to me why I was detained, they only told me that the reason was because of the tattoos, Bernal said. When the plane was about to take off for Venezuela, the ICE officers completely ignored me and gave me no reason for my daughter and, to this day, I dont know anything about her.
Bernal urged the U.S. government to present evidence of the crimes she allegedly committed in that country and stressed, If they have proof of what they say, prove it. They want to cover up the kidnapping of my daughter Maikelys Espinoza, by making me out to be a bad mother, but it is absolutely false. I demand the U.S. to show proof of what I am accused.
However, the DHS explained that Bernal allegedly oversaw Tren de Araguas recruitment of young women for drug smuggling and prostitution while her husband, Maiker Espinoza-Escalona, oversaw homicides, drug sales, kidnappings, extortion, sex trafficking, and operated a torture house. The couple had final orders of removal from a judge. The child was taken off the deportation flight manifest for her safety and welfare in cooperation with the Department of Health and Human Services.
The alleged kidnapping of two-year-old Maikelys Espinoza was also used by Nicaraguas communist dictator Daniel Ortega to accuse President Donald Trump of committing crimes against humanity by deporting illegal migrants in the U.S. in an hour-long rant where he also complained about Trumps tariff policies and the sanctions imposed on his authoritarian regime.
Maduro and numerous members of his regimes top brass have repeatedly claimed that President Trumps use of the 1798 Alien Enemies Act to deport Venezuelan Tren de Aragua members to El Salvador is comparable to the persecution of the Jewish people under Nazi Germany. According to Maduro, the Venezuelan deportees are detained in concentration camps run by Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele.
Maduro, who has vowed to do everything necessary to rescue the detained alleged Tren de Aragua members, rejected a formal proposal issued by President Bukele in April that involved sending 252 Venezuelan deportees home in exchange for the release of 252 of Maduros nearly 900 political prisoners. Bukeles proposal called for the liberation of Venezuelan political prisoners as well as nearly 50 foreign nationals from over a dozen countries such as the United States, Argentina, Italy, Israel, and Puerto Rico.
While the liberation of the kidnapped child and demands for the release of the Venezuelan Tren de Aragua members from El Salvador were the main May Day focus, the Maduro regime also celebrated the communist holiday by providing Venezuelan workers with a purported wage hike described by state media as miraculous but correctly asserted as misleading by local labor union workers. The workers explained to international outlets that the purported new $160 monthly wages is mostly based on regime bonuses and not an actual wage raise and said raise is an accounting artifice that offsets foreign currency exchange disparities between official and black market rates.
The Venezuelan regime also celebrated May Day with a new episode of (Super Mustache), Maduros cartoon superhero alter ego, meant to pay homage to the indestructible strength of our working class, the indomitable heart of our Bolivarian revolution.
You, men and women of this land, are the engine that drives Venezuela forward. Together, we face the missiles of sanctions, those economic weapons that seek to bend our sovereignty and our dignity, Maduros cartoon persona said in the episode. But here we are, standing up, demonstrating that the courage of the Venezuelan people has no limits. Every worker is a living example of resistance, struggle, and love for the homeland.
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