
Venezuela has followed through on its threat to the U.S. and stopped accepting deportation flights from the country, as relations between the countries sour amid a renewed crackdown from the Maduro government on political adversaries.
According to the Wall Street Journal, the decision came after Washington reimposed some of the economic sanctions it had previously lifted. The U.S. government had concluded that the Venezuelan government didn't fulfill its commitments made in the Barbados agreements, a series of conversations with the opposition aimed at advancing to freer and fairer elections.