A total of 174 Venezuelan migrants deported by the United States They returned on Wednesday to the countryaccording to the Venezuelan state television channel (VTV) from the Simón Bolívar Maiquetía International Airport.
The media indicated that migrants, who lived in the United States, They traveled from Honduras in the state airline Conviasa And they were received by the Minister of Penitentiary Services, Julio García, and police and military officials, who did not offer statements.
Likewise, VTV indicated that with this new group of deportees, which will be “reviewed” by “different agencies” of the State, They rise to 2,731 migrants returned to Venezuelaaccording to official figures.
For its part, the Prosecutor’s Office reported today that it initiated an investigation for the alleged “forced disappearance” of a Venezuelan, who – according to the institution – was arrested at the end of January 2025 in the state of Michigan (USA) and subsequently “held in a maximum security center in Texas”, although its whereabouts is unknown.
Through a statement, published in Instagram, the head of the institution, Tarek William Saab, identified the Connational as Ricardo Prada, who, he said, “worked as a dealer in the city of Detroit and was arrested by US authorities to be deported.”
Saab added that Prada informed a friend, at the end of March, that he was “detained in a maximum security detention center in Texas, after which his whereabouts are unknown.”
Extradition occurred in the midst of tensions between Venezuela and El Salvadorafter the United States government deported to the Central American country more than 200 Venezuelan migrants accused of allegedly members of the Transnational Criminal Organization of Aragua, which was born in a prison in the Caribbean nation.
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