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Mujer mayor de espaldas con una maleta en la terminal de un aeropuerto, imagen alusiva a un traslado y a la espera lejos de su familia
Imagen alusiva: una mujer mayor de espaldas, con su maleta, en la terminal de un aeropuerto.

Family seeks help for Venezuelan deported to Central African Republic

The family of Marilú Paredes, a 66-year-old Venezuelan deported according to its account to Bangui, is asking for financial support and legal advice to help…

--- The context --- The case of Marilú Paredes, a 66-year-old Venezuelan, sits, according to her family, within deportations from the United States to third countries. An international human rights organization reported on October 8 that, according to its analysis, more than 500 people were transferred to African countries between January 2025 and August 2026. --- The facts --- According to the family, Paredes was deported to Bangui, capital of the Central African Republic, and her relatives are asking for financial support and legal advice to help her leave there and reunite with her loved ones. According to testimony from those affected, she was transferred from Louisiana together with nine other women. According to that testimony, the group believed it would be taken to Miami, where its immigration detention process would continue, but it ended up in the Central African Republic. Her daughter, Maylú López, said Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers detained her mother when she attended a mandatory immigration check-in. Her daughter said, in attributed indirect terms, that her mother is alone in a country completely unknown to her, without relatives or a support network, and alleged that authorities retained her passport, which makes it harder, she explained, to obtain travel documents and explore legal alternatives. --- The positions --- The family maintains that Paredes had immigration protection that prevented her deportation to Venezuela and is seeking legal advice to review her transfer. Its fundraising campaign seeks to cover legal and documentary expenses to achieve a family reunion. The information released carries no statement from Immigration and Customs Enforcement or any other authority about this specific case. The only contextual figure is the count from the international human rights organization cited. --- What remains unknown --- There is no official explanation of the destination chosen, nor the current state of the steps the family is trying to pursue from Bangui to obtain travel documents. --- Unanswered questions --- What legal route could allow Paredes to leave Bangui according to the review her family is seeking? How will the retention of her passport, alleged by her daughter, affect any documentary process? Will there be an official statement on this specific transfer? --- EPM analysis --- The force of the case lies in the contrast the family describes between the expected destination, Miami, and the final destination, a country that, according to her daughter, is completely unknown to her. 📌 EPM Take: In EPM's view, what the family describes requires careful and verifiable legal review, because a 66-year-old woman would have been left alone in Bangui, far from her husband and her family network, with her passport retained according to her daughter's account. With no official statement in the available information, the case rests on testimony that deserves to be tested, and the human priority the family raises, reuniting her with her loved ones after more than 40 years of marriage, should not be lost amid prolonged procedures and administrative silence.
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