Nicolás Maduro referred to his agreement with the Donald Trump administration during his speech on International Women’s Day. Photo: Presidential Press, Luis Tavera.
Guacamaya, March 8, 2025. Nicolás Maduro stated on Saturday that communications with the United States government had been damaged following the revocation of General License 41, which allows Chevron to operate in Venezuela despite sanctions.
“Now we have a little problem there, because with what they did, they have damaged the communications we had opened,” said the Venezuelan leader during his live broadcast on VTV, on the occasion of International Women’s Day.
“I was interested in the communications we had opened because I wanted to bring back all the Venezuelans who are unjustly imprisoned and persecuted there, just for being migrants. Being a migrant is not a crime,” Maduro continued.
Confirming what The Wall Street Journal had reported on Friday, Maduro explained that the revocation affected repatriation flights “with our planes.” He also referred to the revocation of the license as something “inexplicable.”
The governments of Donald Trump and Nicolás Maduro have been in communication since January 20 of this year. The US Presidential Envoy for Special Missions, Richard Grenell, visited Maduro in Caracas on January 31. During the meeting at the Miraflores Palace, the release of 6 American prisoners and the resumption of deportation flights operated by Conviasa, the Venezuelan state airline, were agreed upon.
