Over 500 migrants return to Venezuela

Caracas, Apr 3 (Prensa Latina) More than 500 Venezuelan migrants deported from the United States are expected to arrive in the country on two flights as part of the government's Return to the Homeland plan.

April 3, 2025
08:08

President Nicolás Maduro announced on Wednesday, during the inauguration of a hospital center, that the first aircraft with migrants who fled the United States due to persecution, is set to arrive at Simon Bolivar International Airport in Maiquetía, La Guaira state. He explained that 300 men and women who successfully escaped this persecution will return from Mexico on a Conviasa (Venezuelan Consortium of Aeronautical Industries and Air Services) plane.

The Secretary General of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela, Diosdado Cabello, revealed that 150 minors are traveling on the flight.

Maduro stated that another Conviasa plane will arrive on Thursday “with migrants rescued from the prisons where they were kidnapped in the United States.” He specified that they will rescue “a large group of more than 200 Venezuelans who are in prison, many of them imprisoned for a year or a year and a half.”

The president noted that the vast majority of the cases are economic migrants who left the country as a result of sanctions in search of an alternative and ended up persecuted by the US government. He also indicated that on Friday at 6:00 p.m. local time, a US plane is expected to arrive to carry out the weekly flight to rescue new migrants. He reiterated that Venezuela is the only country in the world that has a Great Mission (Return to the Homeland) to comprehensively care for its migrants.

Maduro emphasized that the kidnapping of these compatriots is an act of massive violation of human rights and international law, and asserted that they are victims of brutal persecution. He also reaffirmed the innocence of the deported Venezuelans and assured that “there is no evidence that they have committed any crime,” and that they were sent to a concentration camp in El Salvador without access to lawyers or justice, which constitutes a crime against humanity.

Relatives of the kidnapped migrants, supported by the community, gathered last night outside the Salvadoran embassy in Caracas to participate in a vigil in solidarity with their compatriots.

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