A flight that carried 199 Venezuelans deported from the United States to his hometown has landed at Simon Bolívar Airport near Caracas.
U.S. repatriation flights to Venezuela stopped weeks ago The Trump administration revoked a license that allowed Venezuela to export part of its oil to the United States despite sanctions.
But on Saturday the two governments, who have no diplomatic relations, reached an agreement on the resumption of flights, as part of the Trump administration plan to eliminate migrants without documentation.
Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro described the flights as an opportunity to « rescue and release migrants from prisons in the United States. »
When they landed on Monday on Monday, some of the deportees raised their arms and stirred.
Earlier they had been transferred from the state of the United States of Texas to Honduras, in Central America, from where they were flown by the Venezuelan flag carrier convinces in Maiquetía, north of Caracas.
The United States Office of Affairs of the Western Hemisphere described them as « illegal alien » that « they had no basis for staying in the United States. »
The head of the National Assembly of Venezuela, Jorge Rodríguez, emphasized on Saturday that migration was not « a crime ».
Venezuela had originally agreed to take United States Venezuelan deportees in an agreement faced by President Donald Trump, Richard Grenell, in Caracas in January.
It was widely seen as a victory for Trump, which has made non -documented migrants a priority.
However, on March 8, Maduro said that the North -American Administration’s decision to revoke the Chevron oil giant’s license to operate in Venezuela had created « a small problem. »
« They damaged the line of communication that we had opened, and I was interested in these lines of communication … because I wanted to take home all the Venezuelan who have in prison they have unjustly persecuted, » he said.
One week later, the Trump administration deported 238 Venezuelans to a mega-presonary in El Salvador, arguing that they were members of the Aragua Criminal Gang.
It caused a cry in Venezuela, where several relatives of the deportees to El Salvador insisted that their loved ones had no criminal connections.
On Monday, Trump said to the social truth that Venezuela « has been very hostile to the United States. »
He said that his government was « intentionally and misleading to the United States, covert, tens of thousands of high levels and other criminals, many of whom are murderers and people of a very violent nature. »
He also announced a « secondary rate » in Venezuela, which means that any country that bought oil and gas in Venezuela would be affected by a 25% rate when negotiating with the United States.
The deportation of the Venezuelans to the dreaded prison of Cecot de El Salvador was followed by the Cecot prison A notice published AX The Secretary of State -American, Marco Rubio, last week, Venezuela would face « severe and growing » sanctions if he refused to accept his deported citizens of the United States.
The next day, Maduro ordered his government to « intensify the action needed to guarantee the return flights for the detained migrants ».
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