Repatriated migrants pose for a photo with Venezuelan officials upon their arrival in Caracas, May 8, 2025. Photo: Alberto News.
A group of 315 Venezuelans returned to Venezuela from Mexico on a Conviasa flight as part of the Return to the Homeland (Vuelta a la Patria) Plan.
The group, comprising 197 adults and 118 minors, were received by the Venezuelan authorities on Thursday, May 8.
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As of today, over 4,000 Venezuelans have returned home through the national government’s migrant repatriation program this year.
Upon their arrival to the country, the 315 returnees received legal and health assistance from the corresponding authorities.
Earlier, on Wednesday, 71 Venezuelan migrants, who had been victims of abduction by the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), returned via Honduras on a Return to the Homeland flight.
The information was made public by the minister of the Interior, Citizen Security and Peace, Diosdado Cabello, during his program Con El Mazo Dando, where he explained that the group of returnees from Honduras consisted of 62 men and 9 women, but no minors.
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Cabello condemned the United States’ wilful chaos in the return of Venezuelan migrants. “They made a Conviasa plane land with a stopover in Honduras, where first they said that 244 migrants were coming, but then the number became 170, then 140. We sent a big plane, but only 71 persons were repatriated,” he complained.
In this context, he questioned the lack of clarity in the numbers of repatriates and criticized the US government for not complying with the transfer procedures. He emphasized that the US administration acts with “imperial arrogance” and demanded the return of the baby girl Maikelys Espinoza, together with other Venezuelan minors separated from their families.
He explained that these actions are part of a conspiracy of disinformation and obstacles imposed by the United States in order to hinder the Venezuelan government’s family reunification efforts.
Translation: Orinoco Tribune
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