The U.S. State Department is Blocking Repatriation Flights: Rodriguez
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March 21, 2025 Hour: 7:56 am
Venezuela has hired top law firms to secure the release of over 200 migrants who were deported to El Salvador.
On Thursday, Jorge Rodriguez, the delegate of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro for the Peace Dialogues, stated that Venezuela is ready to resume repatriation flights for migrants but accused the U.S. State Department of blocking these repatriation operations.
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“We are completely ready, only waiting for the necessary coordination to take place,” he said from the Miraflores Palace—the seat of the Venezuelan Executive—after a meeting with relatives of individuals recently deported by Washington to El Salvador.
On Wednesday, President Maduro ordered an increase in efforts to guarantee repatriation flights from the U.S. Previously, the U.S. State Department warned that it would impose “new, severe, and progressive sanctions” on Caracas if it does not accept new planes carrying deported nationals.
Rodriguez announced that Maduro’s administration is reaching out to “the best law firms specializing in immigration” in the U.S. to represent both the Bolivarian country and “each and every Venezuelan migrant.”
Venezuela has hired top law firms in El Salvador to defend and secure the release of over 200 people who were deported last weekend to the Central American country, where they remain “kidnapped” by the government of President Nayib Bukele.
“How is it possible that Bukele accepts, allows, and charges money for keeping young people kidnapped? They have committed absolutely no crime, neither in El Salvador, nor in the United States, nor in Venezuela,” Rodriguez expressed.
The relatives of some of these migrants insisted that their children are innocent during a meeting with President Maduro, who has promised to take all necessary actions to secure their release.
“They will be rescued by the power of truth, by the power of God, and by the power of the Venezuelan people,” said Rodriguez, who claimed that the Venezuelan migrants had “properly registered with U.S. immigration authorities” and had met “all the requirements established by the U.S. to live in various cities there.”
Washington deported these individuals under accusations of allegedly belonging to the Aragua Train, a criminal organization that Venezuelan authorities had dismantled long ago in their country.
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Source: EFE
