More than 100 Venezuelans Who Were Deported From the US Hours Before the Earthquakes Are Missing
More than 100 deportees were in the hotel when 7.2 and 7.5 earthquakes struck, leaving survivors searching for missing people and bodies.
- On Wednesday, June 24, 7.2 and 7.5 magnitude earthquakes struck Guaira, Venezuela, trapping more than 100 recently deported Venezuelans inside the Hotel Santuario Llanada.
- The group arrived in Caracas hours earlier on a deportation flight from Miami carrying 146 Venezuelans, including 19 women and seven children, after flights resumed in February 2025.
- Lisbeth Portillo, 58, escaped with about 20 others while Jenny Rodriguez, 24, freed herself from debris by grabbing a colleague's trousers; "I was born again; God gave me a second chance," Portillo said.
- Survivors walked the streets searching for aid, traumatized by the collapse, while The Venezuelan government reports more than 1,700 people were killed in the earthquakes.
- ICE Flight Monitor tracked 288 deportation flights to 38 countries in May, including Burkina Faso, Cambodia, Cameroon, Chile, and the Ivory Coast; the United States ran 12 flights to Venezuela operating three days a week.
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Over 100 Venezuelans deported from US missing in collapsed hotel
Over 100 Venezuelan immigrants are missing after the hotel they were staying at collapsed in back-to-back earthquakes hours after being deported to their home country from the United States. A deportation flight flying out of Miami landed in Venezuela on Wednesday, dropping off 146 Venezuelans, according to a deportation flight tracker. They were sent to a hotel in La Guaira to stay temporarily, a hotel among those that bore the brunt of the 7.2…
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More than a hundred people who had just been deported from the United States and were being held in a hotel in Caracas when two earthquakes struck Venezuela are missing. A search has been underway for days for their bodies, which are believed to be buried under the rubble.
More than 100 Venezuelans who were deported from the US hours before earthquakes are missing - American Press
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. A deportation flight from Miami arrived in Venezuela hours before Wednesday’s earthquakes. On board were 146 Venezuelans, including 19 women and seven children, according to ICE Flight Monitor, an initiative of Human Rights First, …
More than 100 Venezuelans who were deported from the U.S. hours before the earthquakes are missing
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.
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