El Salvador President Nayib Bukele on Sunday proposed sending 252 Venezuelans deported from the US and imprisoned in his country to Venezuela, in exchange for taking “political prisoners” held by Venezuela. In a post on X, Bukele asked that Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro hand over 252 “of the political prisoners you are holding,” under his…
Nathali Sánchez last heard from her husband on March 14, when he called from a Texas detention center to say he was being deported back to Venezuela. Later that night, he texted her through a government messaging app for detainees. “I love you,” he wrote, “soon we will be together forever.” Her husband, Arturo Suárez…
The pre-dawn call by U.S. border agents to their Canadian counterparts was shocking: A group of nine people, most of them children, were about to enter Canada on foot. On Feb. 3 at 6:16 a.m., when the group was spotted, the border between Alberta and Montana was brutally uninviting, covered in snow, dark with a…
The pre-dawn call by U.S. border agents to their Canadian counterparts was shocking: A group of nine people, most of them children, were about to enter Canada on foot. On Feb. 3 at 6:16 a.m., when the group was spotted, the border between Alberta and Montana was brutally uninviting, covered in snow, dark with a…
Two flights carrying Venezuelan migrants from the United States back to Venezuela will arrive late Monday in the capital, Caracas, the country’s communication’s ministry said. The flights are a major victory for the Trump administration, which made a campaign promise to deport millions of undocumented migrants. To accomplish this goal, President Trump needs Nicolás Maduro,…
Shortly after 3 a.m., a battering ram burst open the door to a 14th-floor apartment and three men dressed in the black tactical gear of the Chilean police rushed in. Brandishing guns, they grabbed Ronald Ojeda in front of his wife and 6-year-old son and dragged him away in his underwear. Mr. Ojeda, a 32-year-old…
President Trump’s border czar, Tom Homan, made plainly clear how a Latin American nation — considered a U.S. adversary — will help the president deliver on a promise that carried him to the White House. Mr. Homan expected flights carrying Venezuelan migrants in the United States back to Venezuela to begin “within the next 30…
Richard Grenell, President Trump’s envoy for special missions, said on social media that he was flying home from Venezuela with six American detainees on Friday, after meeting with the country’s president. There were at least nine people with U.S. citizenship or residency detained in Venezuela, according to Venezuelan officials. The government had accused some of…
At least 80 people are dead and more than 18,000 have been forced to flee their homes in Colombia, officials say, amid fierce clashes between two rival armed groups on the border with Venezuela. The violence, carried out over the last four days in a northeast region called Catatumbo, is some of the worst the…