Diplomat Alex Saab denounced the mistreatment during his illegal detention

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During his exclusive interview the Venezuelan diplomat referred to the sanctions he and his families had been subjected to by the US government and how he was torture for two hours for refusing to sign a voluntary extradition from Cape Verde to the United States. teleSUR  Visit our website: https://www.telesurenglish.net/ Watch our videos here: https://videos.telesurenglish.net/en

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00:00 Venezuela diplomat Alex Saab denounced torture and cruel treatment received during his kidnapping

00:05 in Cape Verde, an illegal incursion in the United States.

00:10 In an exclusive interview given in the third edition of Maduro's podcast, the diplomat

00:14 said that during his kidnapping, the U.S. government imposed unilateral coercive measures

00:19 against Venezuela and the Baltic economy in order to get nations collapsed.

00:24 Saab also reported that during his abduction, he had to drink water in the same containers

00:29 where he had to perform his physiological needs.

00:37 In his exclusive interview, the Venezuelan diplomat referred to the sanctions he and

00:42 his family had been subjected to by the U.S. government and how he was tortured for two

00:49 hours for refusing to sign a voluntary extradition from Cape Verde to the U.S.

00:56 In July 2019, I was sanctioned.

00:59 My sons, my brothers also were sanctioned, who didn't even have any link to the government

01:09 of Venezuela.

01:12 They were sanctions because they were relatives of mine.

01:17 Since 2019, I was sanctioned for working in the food system of Venezuela.

01:31 That first night, I was put in Yale.

01:39 No one spoke to me.

01:41 The next day and night, I had no food, no water.

01:47 At midnight, they started to talk to me, and they urged me to sign my voluntary extradition

01:59 to the United States.

02:00 I refused.

02:01 And then the control is, they handcuffed me and seat me in a chair.

02:12 They put out a towel.

02:15 They put a towel on my face and start filling my face with water.

02:23 So I had the sensation of drowning.

02:28 They tortured me for over two hours.

02:35 Alex Aba shared his experience in prison and admitted that he gets emotional when he remembers

02:40 about those moments.

02:42 On November 16th, a guard came to me and said, "Alex, there are a group of people from human

02:55 rights are going to come here with the director of the prison, Yale.

03:02 You need to Yale that you are being subjected to torture."

03:09 So when I heard that they were coming up, I started to Yale.

03:14 Well, they kept walking.

03:19 They didn't listen to me.

03:23 I still get very emotional when speaking about this.

03:28 Ten minutes later, they came back.

03:34 They opened the door and said, "Alex, we are here for you."

03:45 They verified that I was tortured.

03:47 They said, "This is not going to happen again."

03:53 They fired the director Correa from the prison.

03:59 Camila Fabri, wife of diplomat Alex Aba, recounts how the Venezuelan people were a great support

04:07 for her in the midst of the nightmare that this Fabri family was living.

04:13 This has been the victory of the diplomacy of peace.

04:23 This has been a historical victory, and they are in pain because they spent millions of

04:31 dollars in this media war and this demonization of Alex and Venezuela.

04:41 We are more than decided to defend the truth of Venezuela because there are a lot of lies

04:49 to justify policies against Venezuela.

04:55 We need to fight because these people deserve to be respected and deserve to be defended.

05:04 This is a loving people that they have given me a lot.

05:09 [BLANK_AUDIO]

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