Venezuelan law enforcement agents waiting for the arrival of a Conviasa flight carrying Venezuelan migrants from Mexico, October 9, 2025. Photo: IG/@minjusticia_ve.
Caracas (OrinocoTribune.com) – A new group of 583 Venezuelan migrants deported from the United States arrived at the Simón Bolívar International Airport in Maiquetía, La Guaira state, this week on three separate flights. Meanwhile, the Venezuelan government, through its UN Ambassador Samuel Moncada, continues to demand the return of 78 minors separated from their parents and being “used as a tool of extortion” by the US regime.
The repatriations began with flight number 74 this year from the US, which came from Texas on Wednesday, October 8, carrying 197 Venezuelans: 178 men, 14 women, and five children.
It was followed by flight number 75 on Thursday from Mexico with 219 passengers: 93 men, 64 women, and 121 children. Finally, flight number 76 arrived from the US on Friday with 167 Venezuelans,: 122 men, 37 women, and eight children.
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Return of abducted child
On Friday’s flight, the president of the Return to the Homeland Plan, Camilla Fabri, along with other authorities, received four-year-old Aurora Cácere, a minor who had been “unjustly separated from her father and abducted by the US regime,” one among dozens of children separated from their families in the same way in the US.
The arrivals this week bring the total number of citizens repatriated from the US since the program resumed in February to more than 14,000. Flights 75 and 76 were operated by the US-based airline Eastern. Flight 74 was operated by Venezuela’s public airline, Conviasa, after several weeks with no reported flights from the carrier—a pause that coincided with the escalation of US military threats against Venezuela.
Venezuela Welcomes 530 Repatriated Migrants From US This Week
Venezuelan migration
Most of the Venezuelan immigrants in the US originally decided to go there after being affected by an economic crisis that hit Venezuela strongly between 2015 and 2020, a direct consequence of illegal US sanctions.
After a massive smear campaign and xenophobic and racist violence in the US, alleging Venezuelan migrants of being criminals, the US government began detaining and deporting them. This occurred despite the majority of migrants having no criminal record and many having clean regularization procedures.
Return to the Homeland Plan
Venezuelan authorities received the repatriates in accordance with the protocols of the Return to the Homeland Plan. The comprehensive care provided upon arrival includes healthcare, psychological support, and criminal, identification, and socioeconomic checks and support.
The Return to the Homeland Plan was launched by President Nicolás Maduro in 2018 to repatriate free of cost vulnerable Venezuelans stranded abroad. The program is aimed at assisting those who have been victims of xenophobia and exploitation and assuring their dignified and safe return. It offers comprehensive support to facilitate a successful and trauma-free reintegration into the Venezuelan society.
Special for Orinoco Tribune by staff
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