“Miserable”: Venezuela stops receiving deportees and Noboa attacks Maduro

Venezuela will stop receiving United States deportees In response to the decision of the President Donald Trump to revoke the license of Chevron Corp. to operate in the South American country.

The secretary of the ruling party of Venezuela, Diosdado Cabello, confirmed on Monday that Nicolás Maduro had ordered to stop direct repatriation flights from the United States. The Andean country will continue to receive migrants from other countries, starting with a group of Bolivia, Cabello said on state television.

Maduro’s officials privately warned the Trump administration that the flights would stop after the United States gave Chevron 30 days to reduce its operations, the Wall Street Journal reported last week, citing anonymous sources.

The United States is also preparing to revoke exemptions that allow other foreign oil companies to operate in the country. The suspension of flights by Maduro could trigger even more aggressive measures by the Trump administration.

“With what they did, the communications we had opened”Maduro said on Saturday, referring to the revocated license to Chevron. “I wanted to bring all Venezuelans back that are unjustly prisoner and persecuted just for being migrants, and that affected the flights that we already had scheduled”

In early 2024, Maduro suspended direct deportation flights after former president Joe Biden threatened to impose oil sanctions in response to breach of democratic commitments by the Venezuelan leader.

The flights resumed in February after Trump’s special envoy, Ric Grenelll, visited Caracas and achieved the release of six US citizens of Venezuelan prisons.

In total, three flights arrived in Venezuela, with about 370 passengers, coming directly from the United States or its naval base in the Bay of Guantanamo, Cuba. Maduro’s government said the US administration had informed them that some 5,000 migrants could be deported.

Noboa attacks Maduro

The president of Ecuador, Daniel Noboa, called de “Miserable”To representatives of the Venezuelan government before the reverse announced by its president Nicolás Maduro to the repatriation agreement with the United States, after the US government revoked the Chevron license to operate in the Caribbean country.

“It is miserable and an absolute lack of empathy that a government rejects its own people. Thus the authoritarian and extremist regimes act, regardless of the fate of those who flee from the crisis”, The president criticized Sunday in his social network account X.

Noboa accuses Maduro of having “warned“To the United States,”in camera”, On the possibility of retreating in the repatriation agreement between Venezuela and the United States after a first approach at the end of January after more than five years of frozen relations between the two countries.

After that negotiation, Venezuela had come to repatriate 366 of its citizens deported from the United States.

The US president, Donald Trump, has said that the decision to revoke Chevron’s license to operate in Venezuelan territory responded to the lack of democratic guarantees in the presidential elections last July.

The Venezuelan electoral entity winner Maduro between complaints of opposition fraud and a wide range of countries.

Maduro responded on Saturday in a public act that Americans “They have damaged the communications we had opened. And that affected the trips (of deported migrants) that we had already scheduled”

“This has an impact on the entire region“Noboa criticized, who emphasized that Ecuador will not receive”deported migrants from other nationalities”

The Ecuadorian president does not recognize the results of the last Venezuelan election and met in January with the opposition candidate for the presidency of the Caribbean country, Edmundo González Urrutia, to whom he expressed his support.