A flight with 199 Venezuelans, which were deported to their homeland from the USA, landed near Caracas at Simón Bolívar Airport.
US return flights to Venezuela had a stop weeks ago The Trump government revoked a license that made it possible Venezuela to export part of its oil to the USA despite the sanctions.
But on Saturday, the two governments that have no diplomatic relationships, as part of the Trump administration’s plan to remove migrants without papers, have received an agreement on the resumption of flights.
Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro described the flights as an opportunity to “free migrants from prisons in the United States”.
When they got out of the plane early Monday, some of the deported raised their arms and waved.
They had previously been transferred from the US state of Texas to Honduras in Central America, from where they were flown by the Venezuelan flag carrier overReaviasa to Maundquetía north of Caracas.
The US office for matters of the western hemisphere described it as “illegal foreigners” who “had no basis to stay in the United States”.
The head of the National Assembly of Venezuela, Jorge Rodríguez, emphasized on Saturday that migration was “not a crime”.
Venezuela originally agreed to accept Venezuelan deported from the USA in a deal of President Donald Trump’s special representative Richard Grenell in Caracas in January.
It was widely seen as a victory for Trump, who made the deportation of migrants priority without papers.
On March 8, however, Maduro said that the US government’s decision to revoke the license of the oil giant Chevron in Venezuela had created “a little problem”.
“They damaged the communication line that we had opened, and I was interested in these lines of communication … because I wanted to bring all Venezuelans who have custody who wrongly pursued them,” he said.
A week later, the Trump administration deported 238 Venezolans in El Salvador to a mega prison and argued that they were members of the Tren de Aragua criminal pagean.
It caused an outcry in Venezuela, in which several relatives of those who deported to El Salvador, insisted that their relatives had no criminal connections.
On Monday, Trump said about the social truth that Venezuela “was very hostile to the United States”.
He said her government “deliberately and fraudulently sent to the United States, hidden, tens of thousands of high levels and other criminals, many murderers and people are very violent”.
He also announced a “secondary tariff” in Venezuela, which means that every country that buys oil and petrol from Venezuela is met with a tariff of 25% in retail with the USA.
The deportation of the Venezuelans on El Salvadors feared Cecot prison followed A warning to X Of US Foreign Minister Marco Rubio Last week that Venezuela would be exposed to “severe and escalating” sanctions if it refused to accept its citizens that were deported from the USA.
The following day, Maduro ordered his government to “reinforce the measures that are necessary to guarantee return flights for imprisoned migrants”.
