The US confirms the transfer of 177 Venezuelan migrants from Guantanamo to Venezuela

The United States government said Thursday that it began The transfer of 177 migrants held in the Military Base of Guantanamo (Cuba) to Venezuela.

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In a publication on platform X, the Immigration and Customs Service (ICE) reported that a US government plane transported migrants today from the base to Honduras, where they were “collected by the Venezuelan government and taken to their country of origin ».

«ICE air operations today transported 177 Venezuelan illegal immigrants from Guantanamo Bay to Honduras to be collected by the Venezuelan government, which returned them to their country of origin,» He specified in X ICE.

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The flights of United States Deportation to Venezuela They have resumed as part of the Anti -immigration impulse He has long promised by the US president, Donald Trump.

An exodus of eight million Venezuelans in 10 years

As a result of a serious economic crisis and political agitation under the government of the authoritarian leader Nicolás Maduro ‘, almost eight million Venezuelans They left the country between 2014 and 2024. From October 2023 to September 2024, Venezuelans represented the second largest number of «migrants found» of any nationality in the southern border of the United Statesaccording to the Office of Customs and Border Protection of the United States.

Agreements after visiting Caracas of Richard Grenelll, Trump’s special envoy

The resumption of deportation flights occurs shortly after Trump’s special envoy, Richard Grenelll, Visión Caracas And he met with Maduro, after which six Americans were released from Venezuelan custody. On Monday, the White House shared a photograph of Grenelll supervising the shipment of migrants in one of the two conviasa flights, and Grenelll himself went to X To thank Trump for deportations.