Venezuelan authorities informed on Thursday that 177 Venezuelan nationals who were rescued from the Guantánamo Naval Base, after being deported by the U.S. Government, have arrived in the country. teleSUR
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00:00A flight with Venezuelan migrants who had been detained at the Guantanamo Naval Base
00:05arrived on Thursday evening at Caracas International Airport as part of the return to the homeland
00:10plan.
00:11The group was welcomed by a delegation of high government officials, headed by Venezuelan
00:17Minister of the Interior Diosado Cabello.
00:19Earlier on Thursday, President Nicolás Maduro asserted that the Bolivarian revolution was
00:25the only one which guaranteed the safe return of Venezuelan migrants to their homeland and
00:30accused the far-right opposition of manipulating public opinion about a migration that they
00:36themselves had provoked.
00:46I am now being told that the plane is on its way back from Honduras.
00:53At the direct request of the Venezuelan government to the United States government, with 177
01:03new migrants that we have rescued from Guantanamo, the naval base that the United States has
01:09in Cuba territory, 177 boys that we rescued there under the return to the homeland plan.