{"id":9336,"date":"2025-03-24T11:00:08","date_gmt":"2025-03-24T15:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/latinamericasecurityreport.com\/?p=9336"},"modified":"2025-03-24T11:00:08","modified_gmt":"2025-03-24T15:00:08","slug":"venezuela-to-resume-repatriation-of-migrants-after-deal-with-u-s-official-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/latinamericasecurityreport.com\/?p=9336","title":{"rendered":"Venezuela to Resume Repatriation of Migrants After Deal with U.S., Official Says"},"content":{"rendered":"
Venezuelan migrants deported from the United States deplane at the Simon Bolivar International Airport in Maiquetia, Venezuela, Feb. 20, 2025. (AP Photo\/Cristian Hernandez, File)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Venezuela will once again accept repatriation flights from the United States carrying its deported nationals after reaching an agreement with the U.S., a Venezuelan official said on social media Saturday.<\/p>\n

Venezuelan President Nicol\u00e1s Maduro<\/a><\/span> suspended flights on March 8, after the U.S. Treasury Department announced the withdrawal of Chevron\u2019s license to export Venezuelan oil.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have agreed with the U.S. government to resume the repatriation of Venezuelan migrants with an initial flight tomorrow, Sunday,\u201d said Jorge Rodr\u00edguez, president of Venezuela\u2019s Assembly and Maduro\u2019s chief negotiator with the U.S.<\/p>\n

Venezuela accepted the deal to guarantee the \u201cthe return of our compatriots to their nation with the safeguard of their Human Rights,\u201d Rodr\u00edguez said.<\/p>\n

In his statement, Rodr\u00edguez referred to the deportation by Donald Trump\u2019s government of some 250 Venezuelans to a high-security prison in El Salvador.<\/p>\n

\u201cMigrating is not a crime and we will not rest until we achieve the return of all those who require it and until we rescue our brothers kidnapped in El Salvador,\u201d Rodr\u00edguez said.<\/p>\n

Maduro ratified the measure during a public event later in the day. \u201cWe are resuming flights to rescue and release migrants from U.S. prisons,\u201d Maduro said.<\/p>\n

The Venezuelan leader also said that he held the president of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, responsible for the well-being of the Venezuelans deported to that country.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou guarantee their health and, sooner rather than later, you have to hand them over and release them, because they are kidnapped,\u201d Maduro said.<\/p>\n

Trump alleged the deportees were members of the Tren de Aragua gang. He labeled the Tren de Aragua<\/a><\/span> an invading force on March 15 when he invoked the Alien Enemies Act<\/a><\/span>, a little-used authority from 1798 that allows the president to deport any non-citizen during wartime. A federal judge issued an order<\/a><\/span> temporarily barring the deportations, but flights were in the air when the ruling came down.<\/p>\n

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Tren de Aragua, which the U.S. Department of State designated a foreign terrorist organization, originated in a prison in the South American country. Members accompanied an exodus of millions of Venezuelans, the overwhelming majority of whom were seeking better living conditions after their nation\u2019s economy came undone last decade.<\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s administration has not provided evidence that the deportees are members of Tren de Aragua or that they committed any crime in the U.S.<\/p>\n

Maduro\u2019s government has mostly refused the entry of immigrants deported from the U.S. Those deportations have sharply picked up since Trump took office on Jan. 20.<\/p>\n

In recent weeks, some 350 people were deported to Venezuela, including some 180 who spent up to 16 days at the U.S. naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.<\/p>\n

The Trump administration said that the Venezuelans sent to Guantanamo are members of Tren de Aragua, but offered little evidence to back this up.<\/p>\n

– Published courtesy of AP News<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Venezuela will once again accept repatriation flights from the United States carrying its deported nationals after reaching an agreement with the U.S., a Venezuelan official said on social media Saturday. Venezuelan President Nicol\u00e1s Maduro suspended flights on March 8, after the U.S. Treasury Department announced the withdrawal of Chevron\u2019s license to export Venezuelan oil. \u201cWe have agreed…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":124,"featured_media":9338,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dims.apnews.com\/dims4\/default\/966bc35\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/4354x2899+0+2\/resize\/820x546!\/format\/webp\/quality\/90\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.apnews.com%2F73%2F7d%2F39a6d1453700cc4196c340566a93%2F521da50a58534692af08dd7f043e660b","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[189],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-borders-commerce"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/latinamericasecurityreport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/latinamericasecurityreport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/latinamericasecurityreport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/latinamericasecurityreport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/124"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/latinamericasecurityreport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9336"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/latinamericasecurityreport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9339,"href":"https:\/\/latinamericasecurityreport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9336\/revisions\/9339"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/latinamericasecurityreport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/latinamericasecurityreport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/latinamericasecurityreport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/latinamericasecurityreport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}