Rather than ‘offshoring’ criminals to the US, Venezuelan government policies have both consolidated gangs and created volatile pacts with them.
Grenell convinced Venezuela’s strong man, Nicolas Maduro, to release six American hostages. He also persuaded Maduro to embrace the return of illegal Venezuelan migrants from the U.S. The first return flights started last week, and Grenell was there to see the migrants off.
A boat with 19 migrants from Venezuela and Colombia and two crew sank off Panama, border police in charge of the rescue operation said Saturday.
Finding the U.S. border effectively closed to them by drastic measures put in place by the Trump administration, thousands of Latin American migrants trapped in Mexico are gearing up for the hard trek back to their countries,