The United States has expelled more than 170 Venezuelan migrants from the Guantanamo bay naval base in Honduras on Thursday, before their transfer expected in Venezuela – seeming to have almost emptied the migrant base.
The deportees were transported by Guantanamo aircraft to the city of Comayagua in Honduras and will now be sent to Venezuela on a special flight by the Venezuelan airline belonging to the convinced State, several sources said in CNN. This is the first expulsion flight from Guantanamo Bay since the Trump administration began to transfer migrants from the United States.
American immigration and customs application confirmed on X, he “transported 177 illegal Venezuelans of Guantanamo Bay to Honduras today for the collection by the Venezuelan government”.
The Ministry of Internal Security allegedly alleged that the Venezuelan migrants sent to Guantanamo Bay had links with the Gang Tren in Aragua.
Earlier Thursday, Honduras said that it has facilitated the transfer of 170 Venezuelan migrants from the United States to Venezuela, but would not confirm that the group was traveling from Guantanamo.
“The Venezuelan government has requested the transfer, it is a suitable flight and they pay for it,” said one of the sources at CNN.
Like several Venezuelan companies belonging to the State, Conviasa is currently under sanction of the American Treasury.
The Venezuelan government said in a statement that he had asked for the repatriation of the Venezuelan nationals who had been “unfairly taken to the Guantanamo naval base” and thanked Honduran President Xiomara Castro for “collaboration provided in the rescue of these compatriots” .
The Venezuelan government said that if one of these returnees had committed a crime, “the competent authorities will act in accordance with the laws of the Republic and in the strict protection of human rights”.
The flight tracking records indicate an Air Plane Viviaa du Venezuela landed in Comayagua, Honduras on Thursday. Less than an hour later, two Globalx planes from Guantanamo Bay arrived at the same aerodrome.
Deporting the alleged members of Tren of Aragua to Venezuela was one of the problems that Richard Grenell discussed with Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro when he visited Caracas in January, the first high -level visit of a American diplomat in Venezuela for years.