1 month ago - On June 24, Serrano was put on a plane in shackles and flown from Miami to Caracas. From there, Venezuelan officials took him and dozens of other U.S. deportees to the Hotel Santuario La Llanada, a complex of buildings overlooking the ocean in the port city of La Guaira. ... Hours later, when twin earthquakes struck Venezuela 39 seconds apart, the hotel shook violently, then buckled.

1 month ago - “We want our family members — whatever condition they are in — we just want to be able to bury them,” Dasilva pleaded. A spokesperson for the US Department of Homeland Security said Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) was not responsible for the deportees when the earthquakes struck. “This flight safely reached Venezuela and all illegal aliens on board were returned home.

1 month ago - A deportation flight from Miami arrived in Caracas hours before Wednesday's earthquakes. On board were 146 Venezuelans, including 19 women and seven children, according to ICE Flight Monitor.

3 weeks ago - Survivors say more than 100 people just deported from the United States were being held in a hotel when earthquakes struck Venezuela, setting off a scramble to find survivors and bodies buried in the rubble.

4 weeks ago - Construction worker Anderson Daniel Salcedo spent three months in U.S. immigration detention before boarding a repatriation flight last Wednesday, June 24, arriving back in Venezuela just hours before twin earthquakes devastated his homeland.

4 weeks ago - My colleague Patricia and I set out to figure out what happened to the 147 Venezuelans the U.S. had deported to Venezuela just a few hours before the earthquakes struck. We reached two survivors who told us harrowing tales of deportees scrambling ...

1 month ago - Venezuelans deported from the U.S. were killed hours later in powerful quakes On June 24, 146 Venezuelans were deported from Texas to Caracas. Hours later, while the deportees were in a guarded hotel, powerful twin earthquakes struck.

1 month ago - ICE Flight Monitor, an initiative run by Human Rights Watch, said the flight carrying 146 Venezuelans left Miami and landed in Caracas on Wednesday at 10.22am. They would all be injured, missing, or dead just hours later when a magnitude 7.5 ...

1 month ago - Tens of thousands of people still haven't been found after a pair of devastating earthquakes in Venezuela last week—including some Venezuelans who had just been deported from the United States as part of President Donald Trump's mass deportation ...

1 month ago - More than 100 people just deported from the United States were being held in a hotel when earthquakes struck Venezuela, setting off a scramble to find survivors and bodies buried in the rubble, according to survivors.

1 month ago - More than 100 people just deported from the United States were being held in a hotel when earthquakes struck Venezuela, setting off a scramble to find survivors and bodies buried in the rubble, according to survivors.

1 month ago - Hernández said Rossi Ydrogo had just called his brother in Caracas 20 minutes before the earth started to shake. Rotating images showing the Hotel Santuario La Llanada on March 20 and after the earthquake Saturday.Planet Labs PBC · Asked for ...

1 month ago - MIAMI -- More than 100 people just deported from the United States were being held in a hotel when earthquakes struck Venezuela, setting off a scramble to find survivors and bodies buried in the rubble, according to survivors.

4 weeks ago - AMY GOODMAN: Beatriz Ochoa, we ... Caracas, Venezuela. Again, it’s believed over a hundred Venezuelans deported to Venezuela just hours before the earthquakes have perished....

1 week ago - Liliana Figueroa, who had migrated to Brazil, returned to Venezuela after her daughter, Angelina, was killed in the twin earthquakes.Credit...