CARACAS - In a special report of Crónicas del Caribe, the Venezuelan journalist Pedro Pablo Peñaloza indicated that the cancellation of the humanitarian flights yesterday had to do with a problem between Venezuelan and the Netherlands. This is an issue that involved the Venezuelan Vice President Delcy Rodriguez.

“If Delcy Rodríguez can’t travel to The Hague, then no one will come to Venezuela!” Three humanitarian flights that should have taken place this month from Curaçao (2) and Aruba (1) bound for Venezuela have been suspended until further notice. This was reported from Venezuela.

The cancellation of trips affects hundreds of Venezuelans, including those who are detained awaiting deportation. "Here I am imprisoned, this is horrible," denounces a woman in Aruba.

All this occured after the Vice President of the Chavista regime denounced on December 13 that the Kingdom of the Netherlands prevented her from traveling to The Hague, where she planned to meet with the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Karim Khan.

“The suspension of humanitarian flights is related to the case of Delcy Rodríguez. Right now relations with the Netherlands are frozen,” says a political source. On the other hand, a person related to the logistics of these humanitarian flights adds: “The National Institute of Civil Aeronautics (INAC) did not give the permits. It is not the first time that has happened, we have to wait and see what they decide in Caracas, in these cases the government of Venezuela always has the last word.”

The plane from Aruba was expected last Sunday, December 19, and those from Curaçao would arrive on Tuesday 21 and Wednesday 22. A statement released this Tuesday by the authorities of Curaçao indicates that “the government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, INAC, did not authorize today's flight, although previously, on December 9, 2021, they had authorized the flights”.

The official Willemstad text adds: “The Department of Foreign Relations of Curaçao, the Consulate of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela and the company Laser Airlines made incessant efforts to obtain the authorization, but without the desired result.”