US, Venezuela trade barbs over migrant deportation flights


CARACAS (Reuters) -A diplomatic spat between the United States and Venezuela flared on Thursday as the U.S. government denied Venezuela's claims of repatriation flights from Mexico, while Venezuela accused Washington of blocking them.

The back-and-forth comes as a planeload of deported Venezuelans touched down on Venezuelan soil after departing from Mexico, in what appeared to be part of U.S. President Donald Trump's push to rapidly expel migrants.

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