Flights on deportation to USA in resume Venezuela after Spat

A flight carried by 199 Venezuelans deported from the United States to his homeland landed at the Simon Bolivar airport near Caracas.

US repatriation flights to Venezuela stopped a few weeks ago after Trump administration withdrew a license that allowed Venezuela to export some of its oil to the US, despite sanctions.

But on Saturday, two governments who do not have diplomatic relations reached an agreement on the resumption of flights as part of the Trump administration plan to remove undocumented migrants.

Venezuelan President Nicholas Maduro called flights as an opportunity to “save free migrants from prisons to the United States.”

When they landed from the plane in the beginning of Monday, some deported raised their hands and waved.

Earlier, they were transferred from the US state in Texas to Honduras, in Central America, from where they flew by the Venezuelan flag of conveis naval to Michetia, north of Caracas.

The US Bureau called them “illegal foreigners” who “had no reason to remain in the United States.”

Venezuelan National Assembly Head of the National Assembly, Horhe Rodriguez, on the other hand, emphasized that migration was “not a crime”.

Initially, Venezuela agreed to pick up in Venezuelan deportations from the United States in an agreement affected by Trump’s special messenger Richard Greene, in Caracas in January.

This was widely regarded as a victory for Trump, which made deportation of undocumented migrants a priority.

However, on March 8, Maduro said the decision of the US administration to withdraw a license for an oil giant Chevron to work in Venezuela created a “small problem”.

“They damaged the communication line that we opened and I was interested in those lines of communication (…) because I wanted to bring all the Venezuelans who they had in custody, which they unfairly pursued,” he said.

A week later, the Trump administration deported 238 Venezuelans to a mega-Turkal pipe in Salvador, claiming that they were members of the Tren de Aragua criminal gang.

This caused a resonance in Venezuela, where several relatives of those who deported to Salvador insisted that their loved ones had no criminal relations.

The Venezuelans’ deportation in Salvador is afraid of the Sycotta prison, after which it was accompanied after a warning posted on x Last week, US Secretary of State Mark Rubio that Venezuela will face “serious escalation” sanctions when refused to accept its citizens deported from the United States.

The next day, Maduro ordered the government “to strengthen the action required to guarantee flights for detained migrants.”