Another 209 migrants returned to Venezuela on a flight from the U.S.

Caracas.- A total of 209 migrants returned to Venezuela this Monday on a flight from Arizona, United States, as part of the Great Homeland Return Mission, the government program that manages returns to the South American country. In a press release, the Ministry of Interior detailed that 147 men, 52 women, six boys and four girls arrived on a flight that landed at the Simon Bolívar International Airport in Maiquetía, which serves Caracas. This is flight number 128 since Caracas and Washington signed a migration agreement for the repatriation of migrants in January of last year, which was maintained even amid tensions over the US military deployment in the Caribbean Sea. According to the State portfolio, the migrants were received by deputy Mervin Maldonado, appointed two weeks ago to temporarily direct the migration return program, which was previously chaired by Camilla Fabri, wife of the Colombian businessman and former minister Álex Saab, a close collaborator of Nicolás Maduro.

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Maldonado, the ministry affirmed, "personally supervised" the logistical deployment and protocols to assist the repatriated, who received "priority attention" from security and health agencies. Last Wednesday, the Government in charge of Delcy Rodríguez reported the arrival of a plane with 171 Venezuelan migrants repatriated from the United States arrived in Venezuela, also coming from Arizona. According to official figures, more than 20,000 migrants have returned to Venezuela since February 2025 on repatriation flights.