Venezuela has agreed to resume deportation flights, according to President Trump’s envoy for special missions, Ric Grenell.
“I am pleased to announce that Venezuela has agreed to resume flights to pick up their citizens who broke U.S. Immigration Laws and entered the U.S. illegally,” Grenell wrote on X. “The flights will resume Friday.”
Venezuela previously stated that migrant flights were affected by “this unexplained, tremendous commotion” after the Trump administration ended a deal with Chevron.
“We are hereby reversing the concessions that Crooked Joe Biden gave to Nicolás Maduro, of Venezuela, on the oil transaction agreement, dated November 26, 2022, and also having to do with Electoral conditions within Venezuela, which have not been met by the Maduro regime,” Trump wrote on Truth Social at the time. “Additionally, the regime has not been transporting the violent criminals that they sent into our Country (the Good Ole’ U.S.A.) back to Venezuela at the rapid pace that they had agreed to. I am therefore ordering that the ineffective and unmet Biden ‘Concession Agreement’ be terminated as of the March 1st option to renew. Thank you for your attention to this matter!”
Venezuelan Vice President Delcy Rodriguez said in a statement on Telegram that the decision to cancel the Chevron deal was “harmful.”
“The constitutional government of Venezuela and its people, in a large national union, categorically reject this type of action publicly requested by the country’s extremist and failed opposition. Venezuela highlights that this type of failed actions promoted migration from 2017 to 2021 with the widely known consequences,” Rodriguez said. “Venezuela will continue on its path of comprehensive economic recovery, guaranteeing it with the creative effort of all and in absolute adherence to its sovereignty and national independence. As one of the liberators of South America José Gervasio Artigas said: ‘let us expect nothing but ourselves.’”
