Venezuela and United States resume migrant flights

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U.S. President Donald Trump's special envoy, Richard Grenell, announced that the governments of Venezuela and his country agreed to resume migrant repatriation flights as of Friday, March 14. teleSUR

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00:00In other information, the United States and Venezuela agreed to resume migrant repatriation

00:05flights starting this Friday, March 14.

00:08Washington's special envoy, Richard Grenell, announced the agreement through his social

00:13network X.

00:14Previously, the President of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, stated that the sanction against the

00:19oil company Chevron affected a new channel of communications with U.S. authorities and

00:25the repatriation flights of migrants.

00:28In addition, the Venezuelan government reaffirmed that most of the returnees are people who

00:33migrated in search of economic horizons and just a few of them have criminal records.

00:50In this context, in a communiqué, the Venezuelan government informed that within the framework

00:54of the Return to the Homeland Plan, it has reached an agreement with Special Envoy Richard

01:00Grenell to repatriate Venezuelan brothers and sisters who are in the United States.

01:05The statement follows, The Bolivarian Government of Venezuela thus protects the human rights

01:10of our migrant compatriots and defends and safeguards the reunification of the families

01:16that have been victims of the serious consequences that the criminal sanctions against our country

01:21and our economy produced in our people and that provoked the departure of our hardworking

01:27and dignified people to other destinations in search of other alternatives.

01:32The communiqué ends by informing, Venezuela ratifies that it will take care of its compatriots

01:37wherever they may be.

01:39We congratulate ourselves for the happiness that comes to Venezuelan homes when we see

01:45their sons and daughters return to their homeland to a dignified future that we all will build

01:50together.

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