Deported Venezuelans back in Caracas!
Caracas, Feb 10 (EFE).-
Two flights with Venezuelans deported from the United States arrived Monday at the Simon Bolivar International Airport in Caracas, according to the country’s President Nicolas Maduro.
“The first plane of the Venezuelan flag airline, Conviasa, has just landed to bring this first group of returnees to Venezuela in a safe, loving, appropriate, and dignified manner,” the strongman said on his weekly television program.
About 10 minutes after the first landing, the second flight arrived with another group of deportees.
Maduro said Venezuelan migrants would be evaluated to determine their medical condition.
Interior Minister Diosdado Cabello received the Venezuelan migrants at the airport and said organizations such as the International Red Cross were on site to evaluate the citizens.
“All the organizations are there, the International Red Cross, the Venezuelan Red Cross (…) there are the media, the firefighters, the Ministry of Penitentiary Affairs,” he said.
Cabello said 190 Venezuelan migrants were received on this first day of deportations from US soil.
“The first thing these boys did was sing the national anthem in a show of feeling already in their country, feeling in their homeland,” he said.
The Venezuelan communications ministry said during the day that it was notified by the US that “some people” on the flight “are allegedly linked to criminal activities, or would be involved in the actions of the transnational gang ‘Tren de Aragua.’”
The US administration does not recognize the legitimacy of Maduro, who was sworn in for a new term despite allegations of electoral fraud by the opposition, which claims the victory of Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia.
However, Trump sent his special representative to Caracas at the end of January, where he met with Maduro and Parliamentary President Jorge Rodriguez.
After the meeting, the release of six Americans detained in the country was announced and that Venezuela would accept deported migrants.
The Conviasa planes were the first from Venezuela to land on US territory since 2019, after an order issued by the US transportation department that restricted flights between the two countries, reported the state media Venezuela News. EFE
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