The Nicolás Maduro regime has agreed to resume flights transporting Venezuelans deported from the United States back to their home country, U.S. diplomat Richard Grenell said. Maduro had recently admitted that the flights had been “impacted” by the Trump administration’s decision to revoke a special license allowing Chevron to produce and sell oil out of Venezuela despite the sanctions imposed on the regime.

Venezuela will once more accept deportation flights from the United States, both sides said Thursday, weeks after Caracas suspended cooperation in protest over Washington stripping oil giant Chevron of a sanctions waiver.

Deportation flights to Venezuela will resume, a senior U.S. diplomat said. "I am pleased to announce that Venezuela has agreed to resume flights to pick up their citizens who broke U.S. Immigration Laws and entered the U.S. illegally," said Richard Grenell, an envoy for special missions, said in a post on X.