Caracas.- Around 90 Venezuelan children They returned to their country this Thursday on a flight repatriation From Mexico, reported this Friday the president of the Autonomous Institute of the National Council for the Rights of Children and Adolescents (IDENNA), Anahí Arizmendi.
In it weekly program 'No tricks or tricks', of the head of the Ministry of the Interior, Diosdado Cabello, Arizmendi indicated that most of the "almost 96 children and adolescents" Those who returned are already with their families and "many" of those who traveled unaccompanied, without specifying the number, were taken to their homes.
The president of Idenna also lamented that these children and adolescents have experienced "very difficult things," such as, she added, "being victims of blackmail, kidnapping, and pressure" after their time in the Darien jungle—the natural border between Colombia and Panama—and in Mexico.
"Today they can be with their families again (...). Many parents stayed behind; others sadly passed away," the official said, without giving further details.
Arizmendi affirmed that Venezuela will continue to open its doors and will deploy "all its logistics, all its planes" to reunite families.
This Thursday, a flight arrived in Venezuela with 311 repatriated people., among whom were 21 Venezuelan children who returned alone, reported Cabello, who did not specify their ages or explain why they were unaccompanied.
A total of 919 Venezuelans have returned to the country on five flights since last February, When 190 were repatriated initially, 176 who were at the US military base in Guantanamo and more recently 242, also from Mexico, according to official figures.
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Since this Tuesday, Chavismo is organizing a series of activities in support for Venezuelans who left the countrySome of them were detained in the U.S. and others in El Salvador, where they were imprisoned under accusations of being alleged members of the Tren de Aragua, a criminal organization that, according to Cabello, was dismantled and is part of a narrative by the Donald Trump administration to "stigmatize" migrants.
This Friday, Nicolás Maduro, who was sworn in for a third term in January after his controversial reelection last year, reaffirmed that he will not rest until he brings back the compatriots imprisoned in El Salvador. To that end, he added, his administration has hired the "best law firms" in the Central American country and the United States.
