A group of 180 Venezuelan migrants deported from the United States returned to their country this Friday in a plane from the North American nation, informed the Venezuelan Ministry of Interior and Justice this Friday.
The group of migrants – 160 men, 16 women and four children – arrived at Simón Bolívar International Airport in Maiquetía, which serves Caracas, in La Guaira state (north), on an aircraft operated by U.S.-based Eastern Airlines, according to official images of the institution posted on Instagram.
The returnees “were attended to by citizen security agencies and State institutions”, among them the Administrative Service of Identification, Migration and Foreigners (Saime), as well as by a medical team to “verify the state of health of each” one of them.
More than 70 flights with repatriated migrants have already taken place
This brings to 71 the number of repatriation flights so far this year, in which, according to figures from the government of Nicolás Maduro, more than 12,000 people have returned to the South American country, most of them from the U.S., after Caracas and Washington, without diplomatic relations since 2019, signed a deportation agreement last January.
According to Agencia EFE, the Venezuelan government claims that these migrant flights are part of the Great Mission Return to the Homeland, a government program that seeks to facilitate the voluntary return to the country, in addition to receiving nationals deported by the US.
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