The Nicolás Maduro regime has agreed to resume flights transporting Venezuelans deported from the United States back to their home country, U.S. diplomat Richard Grenell said. Maduro had recently admitted that the flights had been “impacted” by the Trump administration’s decision to revoke a special license allowing Chevron to produce and sell oil out of Venezuela despite the sanctions imposed on the regime.

Venezuela's government has agreed to resume flights of deported migrants who unlawfully entered the United States, a senior U.S. diplomat announced in a post on X on Thursday, after an apparent pause in the repatriation flights that kicked off last month.

Deportation flights to Venezuela will resume, a senior U.S. diplomat said. "I am pleased to announce that Venezuela has agreed to resume flights to pick up their citizens who broke U.S. Immigration Laws and entered the U.