President Maduro Confirms Return of 177 Venezuelans Deported to Guantanamo
Venezuelans deported to Guantanamo return to their country, Feb. 20, 2025. X/ @delcarmenM89144
February 21, 2025 Hour: 8:08 am
The Bolivarian Revolution guarantees the return of our compatriots because we truly care about them, he said.
On Thursday, President Nicolas Maduro confirmed the arrival in the Bolivarian nation of 177 Venezuelan migrants who were deported by the United States to the Guantanamo Base.
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During the High-Level Workshop of the Popular Government, he recalled that the return of these citizens was made possible thanks to the Return to the Homeland Plan. “A lot of people have already returned thanks to our plan. So far, we have brought back over 900,000 compatriots,” he said.
“Do not believe the false promises of fascism. It is us, the Bolivarian Revolution, who guarantee that our citizens return because we truly care for them,” Maduro added.
The Venezuelan president denounced that the far right has encouraged citizens to migrate to other countries, where they are stigmatized and mistreated. “No, they are not criminals! Our migrants are our children, our compatriots,” the Bolivarian leader stressed.
“With respect, I tell the U.S. president, Donald Trump, to look at the FBI and DEA reports from the last four years to see who financed, moved, and led the infamous Aragua Train. Request the truthful reports to find out who took them to Colombia and the U.S.,” he said.
“Here in Venezuela, we defeated, dismantled, and annihilated that criminal and violent group, which sought to be used to attack Venezuela from Colombia,” the Bolivarian leader added.
Maduro also denounced the existence of a coyote network organized by the far right, highlighting that this network inflicted psychological harm on migrants as they crossed the Darien region.
The Venezuelan leader recalled that far-right activists such as Juan Guaido, Leopoldo Lopez, Maria Corina Machado, Julio Borges, Antonio Ledezma, and Carlos Paparoni used their supposed “support for migrants” as a pretext to misappropriate millions of dollars from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).
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Sources: VTV – teleSUR
