Today, we are receiving 199 compatriots. We are ready to receive Venezuelans wherever they may be, he says at the airport.
TV footage shows young men stepping off the plane after it landed outside the capital Caracas.
Over the weekend, Venezuela announced that an agreement had been reached with the USA to once again fly home Venezuelans from the USA. The flights were stopped in February when the US President Donald Trump claimed that Venezuela had not lived up to an agreement to quickly receive deported migrants, and Caracas announced as a consequence that they would no longer receive the flights.
