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Deportation flights to Venezuela resumed Sunday after a one -week confrontation between the Trump administration and the Venezuelan government, pointing out an agreement between the two countries.
A flight that transports 199 illegal foreigners, including members of the violent Aragua Train (TDA) Gang – For Venezuela he landed on Sunday, the Department of National Security (DHS) confirmed Fox News Digital.
The Trump administration has promised to reach an agreement with the Venezuelan government to accept flights that transport the deportees of the United States, but it has been limited in the regularity of transfers later. President Nicholás Maduro He stopped flights earlier this month, with only four flights received by the Venezuelan government since Trump took office.
Venezuela to resume the acceptance of deportation flights
Venezuelan migrants flew from the Bay of Guantanamo through Honduras climb a ladder after reaching a deportation flight at Simon Bolívar International Airport in Maiquetia, state of La Guaira, Venezuela, February 20, 2025. (Reuters/Leonardo Fernández Viloria)
Maduro refused to receive flights after Trump announced that the United States would finish the driving period that would allow Chevron to export Venezuelan oil, effectively closing an important source of income for the country.
However, Venezuelan officials have confirmed that An agreement was reached On Saturday.
“Venezuela informs that, within the framework of the return to the Plan of the Fatherland and with the aim of returning our compatriots to their nation with the safeguarding of their human rights, we have agreed with the United States government to resume the repatriation of Venezuelan immigrants with an initial flight tomorrow, Sunday, March 23,” Jorge Rodríguez, president of Venezuela Assembly And the main negotiator of the United States, he said in A statement published in X For the Telesur Network.
Flight tracking data It shows a plane operated by the United States immigration and customs control (ICE) left El Paso and was scheduled to land at the Soto Cano Air Base in Honduras on Sunday afternoon. A second plane operated by the Venezuelan state airline Conviasa was ready to land at the air base within an hour of the arrival of ICE, apparently for a transfer between the officials.
The Venezuelan president, Nicolás Maduro, addresses supporters during an event to commemorate the 36th anniversary of the social uprising known as ‘Caracazo’, that the late President Hugo Chávez said that he marked the beginning of his revolution, in Caracas, Venezuela on February 27, 2025. (Reuters/Maxwell Briceno)
The agreement occurs after Secretary of State Marco Rubio promised that Venezuela would face “severe and growing sanctions” if the country continued to refuse to accept its citizens who had faced deportation.
“Venezuela is obliged to accept its repatriated citizens of the United States. This is not a problem for debate or negotiation,” Rubio published X. “Nor deserves any reward. Unless the Maduro regime accepts a consistent flow of deportation flights, without further excuses or delay, the United States will impose new and staggered sanctions.”
The Trump administration did not immediately respond to the request for comments from Fox News Digital.
In recent weeks, approximately 350 migrants have been deported to Venezuela, including approximately 180 people who had been arrested at the US Naval Base. In the Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
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President Donald Trump organizes his first meeting of the Cabinet when he sits next to the Secretary of State Marco Rubio in Washington, DC, on February 26, 2025. (Reuters/Brian Snyder)
Last week, the Trump administration flew to more than 200 Venezuelan migrants to a high security prison in El Salvador in coordination with President Nayib Bukele, despite the order of a federal judge who temporarily blocks deportations.
“Migrating is not a crime, and we will not rest until we achieve the return of all who require it and until we rescue our brothers kidnapped in El Salvador,” Rodriguez said.
Madura also denounced the flights, referring to Venezuelans arrested in El Salvador as “kidnapped” on Saturday.
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In an interview with Fox News Radio, Rubio thanked Bukele for the acceptance of migrants from his country.
“Venezuela should take them, but they refuse to take them,” said Rubio. “And so, we are lucky to have a friend like President Bukele who, as part of my meeting with him, said we will take them by a fraction of what it costs them to house them in their own prison system.”
Louis Casiano and Anders Hagstrom de Fox News Digital contributed to this report.
