Caracas, May 2 (EFE) .- A group of 183 deported Venezuelan migrants from the United States returned to their country on a flight from Honduras, the second that landed on this day in the Caribbean country, the head of the Ministry of Interior, Diosdado Cabello, reported.
In a transmission of the Venezuelan state television (VTV), Cabello said that 157 men and 26 women traveled aboard an airline of the airline convisasa that arrived at Simón Bolívar International Airport, which serves Caracas, around 4:05 p.m. local time (20:05 GMT).
The Chavista leader said that there was no “child” on the plane, which he considered an “arrogant response of imperialism” to “the forceful claim of hundreds of thousands of people” in the case of a two -year -old girl who, according to her family and the administration of Nicolás Maduro, was “kidnapped” by US authorities, who accuse of preventing him from approaching with his mother a repatriation flight.
“In its arrogance, the answer is exactly that: ‘I do not bring any child. I still separate families, because I am the imperialism,” said hair.
He also said that the Maduro government, who swore in January as president after his questioned re -election in July 2024, will continue to claim that they “return” Venezuela not only to children, but all the nationals who are being “kidnapped” and “persecuted” in the United States.
Cabello said, according to official figures, that a total 3,646 migrants have returned to Venezuela in this “stage” of the return plan to the homeland, a program launched in 2018 to facilitate the return of nationals to their country.
With this flight, there are already 18 airplanes that have arrived in Venezuela with repatriated people – the majority from the United States – since last February, when Richard Grenelll, special representative of Donald Trump, visited the Caribbean nation and both governments, without diplomatic relations since 2019, reached a migratory agreement.
On the morning of Friday, an American plane arrived in Venezuelan territory from Texas, with 174 migrants deported by the Trump government.
The plane, operated by the American charter airline Omni Air International, landed around 6:00 local time (10.00 GMT) with “142 men, 18 women, 6 mothers and 8 children”, according to a note from the Ministry of Interior and Justice. EFE
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