"We are still working on the flight from yesterday, July 25, but we do not see that it could leave today. We will inform tomorrow if there are any news." The Spanish Embassy in Caracas continues its efforts so that the humanitarian flight loaded with Spanish-Venezuelans en route to Madrid finally takes off from Caracas after the prohibition decreed by the government of Nicolás Maduro.

The Estelar airline's charter flight was not even allowed to take off from Madrid, citing an alleged lack of permits. The Caracas decision coincides with the discomfort shown by the Bolivarian administration after another humanitarian flight that did take place this week between Madrid and the Creole capital, which was made possible thanks to Spanish efforts after many weeks of waiting and protests by Venezuelan travelers. , who wanted to return to their country.

"During the covid-19 quarantine, seven repatriation flights to Europe with more than 2,000 passengers have been organized. Unfortunately, the Embassy of the Kingdom of Spain has instructed to commercialize a non-existent flight and endorse the responsibility to the national government," the Chavista vice-chancellor shot, Yván Gil, through their social networks.

The revolutionary retaliation comes weeks after the dispute between Brussels and Nicolás Maduro , which caused the "people's people" to back down after announcing the expulsion of the EU ambassador in Caracas. The Spanish ambassador, Jesús Silva , was also threatened at that time by the "son of Chávez" and by Diosdado Cabello , number two of the revolution.

The Chavista decision has left more than 300 passengers, mostly Hispanic-Venezuelans, on the ground and unsure what to do . Much of the passage does not reside in the Venezuelan capital, with the enormous difficulties it entails in such a poorly communicated country, in the midst of the "radical" quarantine, without gasoline and with dollarized prices. "We are stranded, many people paying for a hotel, with children and the elderly who need to return ... We are in uncertainty," one of the travelers complained via twitter.

"I am from Maracaibo and I am paying for a hotel, I have no possibility of returning because, among other things, it costs $ 600 (515) to be taken to Maracaibo (second city in the country and capital of the border state of Zulia), and for not having I have no safe-conduct, "said another of those waiting.

Until now, special flights from Caracas had suffered various delays, including harassment by agents of the General Directorate of Counterintelligence (DGCIM), but had never been temporarily suspended . Venezuela's airspace is closed for commercial flights until mid-August, but everything indicates that the ban will continue due to the increase in contagion and death from coronavirus that the country suffers.

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