Venezuela Refuses Entry To Flight Carrying Deportees: Chilean Authorities

TOPSHOT - Venezuelan migrants arrive from Panama after failing to cross to the US, at the Simon Bolivar International Airport in Maiquetia, La Guaira state, Venezuela, on October 26, 2022. - Tens of Venezuelans returned to their country on Wednesday after failing to reach the United States, which curbed a growing migration of citizens from that country with a new protocol that allows them to be deported if they illegally cross its land border. (Credit: Photo by Miguel Zambrano/AFP via Getty Images)

Chilean Deputy Interior Minister Manuel Monsalve said Thursday that Venezuelan authorities refused entry to their own citizens deported from Chile.

Monsalve said Chile had already chartered a plane for Venezuelans to return to their home country, "but a single decision by the Venezuelan aeronautical authority ruined everything," Reuters reported.