Washington.- He US envoy to Special Missions, Richard Grenell, assured this Thursday that Venezuela will resume flights for its citizens deported from the United States after the Government of Nicolás Maduro cancelled the operation in retaliation for the withdrawal of the license to the Chevron oil company to operate in the Caribbean country.
"I am pleased to announce that Venezuela has agreed to resume flights to pick up its citizens who violated U.S. immigration laws and entered the country illegally," he wrote on his X social media account.
Grenell added that "flights will resume on Friday," without providing further details.
Last week Venezuela indicated that the decision of the Administration of President Donald Trump The withdrawal of Chevron's license meant the interruption of scheduled flights with state-owned aircraft. Conviasa to bring Venezuelan migrants to the US.
"Now we have a little problem there, because with what they did, they damaged the communications we had established. And I was interested in the communications we had established, because I wanted to bring in all the Venezuelans who are imprisoned and unjustly persecuted simply for being migrants," Maduro said on March 8.
On March 4, the Trump administration terminated Chevron's license in Venezuela and gave him a month, until April 3, to leave the Caribbean country, after the US president criticized Maduro for not speeding up the deportation of undocumented immigrants in the US as quickly as he expected.
