Rubio threatens Venezuela with new sanctions

Venezuela will face “heavy and escalating sanctions” if he refuses to accept his citizens who are deported from the United States, State Secretary Marco Rubio said on Tuesday.

A hard warning comes as Trump administration seeks to increase the deportations of Venezuelanians who live in the United States illegally -they need a temporary residence program for hundreds of thousands of Venezuelanians, which could take the way to lose their legal status.

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Many of the protected status have moved to the United States in the middle of the economic collapse in Venezuela under the authoritarian rule of President Nicolas Madur.

“Venezuela is obliged to accept her returned citizens from the US, this is not a question for discussions or negotiations,” Rubiyio wrote on X. “Nor does he deserve any reward. If the Maduro regime does not accept the consistent flow of flights of deportations, without further pronunciation or delay, now will impose new, and escalations and escalations.”

The threat followed for days after Richard Grenell, a special envoy of President Donald Trump, who is in charge of ensuring the release of six US citizens closed in Venezuela, said the Maduro Government agreed to accept flights of repatria.

Maduro agreed to accept his citizens after he initially refused to do so.

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Venecuelan President Nicolas Maduro (left) and Secretary of State Marco Rubio (right). Rubio threatened new sanctions on Venezuela if he did not accept his citizens. (Getty Images / Fox News Digital)

In February, Trump completed his oil export license to allow Chevron to export oil from Venezuela to the United States, Trump noted that the Madurov government did not fulfill the measures to promote free and honest elections.

Trump’s administration fights to deport Venezuelan Gang members Return to their country. Over the weekend, 238 members of the Venecuela gang took off to El Salvador’s high security prison, despite the fact that the federal judge’s order temporarily blocked deportations.

During the interview at Fox News Radio, Rubio thanked President El Salvadoran Nayib Bukele for accepting migrants.

“Venezuela should take them, but they refuse to take them. And so, we are fortunate to have a friend like President Bukele, who, as part of my meeting with him, said that we would take them for a fraction of what it costs to accommodate them in your own prison system,” he said.

President of Venezuela Nicolás Maduro holds a speech in front of Miraflores Palace in Caracas on January 10, 2025. (Pedro Rances Mattey/Anadolu via Getty Images)

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“I think that was a very useful thing El Salvador We have done for us and President Bukela, and we are grateful to him for that. And honestly, I feel like we should continue to work, “he added.