Dec 12 (Reuters) – Venezuela’s interior ministry said in a statement late on Thursday that the United States ‍has suspended a migrant repatriation flight which had been set to arrive on Friday, amid months of high tensions between the two countries.

The U.S. is executing ‌a large-scale military build-up in ‌the southern Caribbean as President Donald Trump campaigns for the ouster of Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro. This week the U.S. seized a sanctioned oil tanker off the country’s coast.

“This Thursday, we have received the ‍decision of the government of the United States to suspend, unilaterally, the return of Venezuelan ‍citizens who had been scheduled to return on December 12,” the interior ministry said in a statement late on Thursday night, saying the suspension interrupted ‍a coo

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