Maduro: US revocation to Chevron license “affected” deportation agreement

The president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, said Saturday that Washington’s revocation of the license he had Chevron To operate in the Caribbean country “keen”The agreement reached with the administration of Donald Trump to repatriate deportened migrants.

The two countries, which broke relations in 2019, had to date the repatriation of 366 Venezuelans after the approach of January 31, when Ripe received a special envoy from Trump -Richard Grenelll- to talk about deportations, American prisoners and communication routes.

“Now, we have a problem there because with what they did have damaged the communications we had opened“, said Ripe in an official act and after expressing their disagreement with the end of the license to Chevron.

“And that affected the trips we had already scheduled with our planes to bring us to our migrant brothers and give them a loving hug when they reach their land (…) Then, well, they created noise to that issue”, He continued without deepening details.

Agreed repatriation flights were being operated by the sanctioned state airline Conviasawhich searched for a first group of 190 Venezuelans in El Paso, Texas, already another of 176 in Honduras, after leaving the Guantanamo military base.

According to information released on Friday by the Wall Street Journal, the Venezuelan government privately warned the Trump administration that will not accept more migrants after the revocation of the license to Chevron.

Trump He said that the decision to revoke the license responded to the lack of electoral conditions in the presidential elections last July, when Maduro was proclaimed as a winner between fraud complaints, and who Washington does not recognize.

But he also pointed out that it is a response to what he considers as a breach of agreements to which he reached for the repatriation of undocumented Venezuelan immigrants from the United States.

Venezuela produces just over a million barrels per day of oil, of which more than 200,000 come from the Operation of Chevron and had the United States as its destination. The American company operated in society with the state -owned PDVSA oil in four crude oil projects.

Maduro has said that he will continue “producing”After the departure of the company. “Not even a liter, nor a production barrel, on the contrary, is maintained and will continue to grow oil production”