Ecuador will not receive deported migrants

10/3/2025 6:29

Ecuador President Daniel

Noboa said on Sunday that his country will not receive deported

migrants of other nationalities, and criticized Venezuela's

president for allegedly rejecting flights of Venezuelan migrants

deported from the United States.



Noboa, who will face off against leftist Luisa Gonzalez in

an April 13 run-off election, said on X that Ecuador would

always receive its own citizens deported from other countries

because "we do not abandon our people."



In his post, Noboa attacked Venezuelan President Nicolas

Maduro for "rejecting" flights of deported Venezuelans, calling

it a "complete lack of empathy."



A day earlier, Maduro said that scheduled flights to

bring home Venezuelan migrants from the



United States



had



been affected



by "this unexplained, tremendous commotion," after the

Trump administration canceled a license allowing



Chevron to operate



in the South American country.



Maduro, however, did not mention the company's name

directly in reference to the migrant flights. He said that

communication between the two countries had been damaged and

flights affected.



"This is how authoritarian and extremist regimes act,

without caring about the fate of those fleeing the crisis they

themselves caused," Noboa said in his post.



Maduro and his government have always rejected sanctions

by the United States and others, saying they are illegitimate

measures that amount to an "economic war" designed to cripple

Venezuela.



Maduro and his allies have cheered what they say is the

country’s resilience despite the measures, though they have

historically blamed some economic hardships and shortages on

sanctions.