The US government flew 177 deportees from Guantánamo Bay to Honduras on Thursday.
US border protection agency ICE said the deportees were then picked up and returned home by the Venezuelan government.
Venezuela had requested the repatriation of the citizens who had been unjustly taken to Guantanámo, Foreign Minister Yvan Gil said in a statement posted on Telegram.
The Guantánamo Bay detention camp is a US military prison within a US naval base in Cuba established by the George W Bush administration following the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks to hold suspected Islamist terrorists.
At one point, almost 800 people were held at the facility, which has been condemned internationally for denying inmates their right to a fair legal trial as well as for human rights violations.
Shortly after coming into office in January, US President Donald Trump signed an executive order instructing the Pentagon and the Department of Homeland Security to set up a migrant detention facility at Guantánamo Bay.
Those deported on Thursday included 126 people with criminal charges or convictions, including 80 allegedly affiliated with the criminal organization Tren de Aragua.
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