US returns two-year-old girl separated from her deported parents to Venezuela

US returns two-year-old girl separated from her deported parents to Venezuela

María Escalona Fernández woke up Wednesday and went out to catch the first bus from Barinas to Caracas, a nearly eight-hour journey she traveled in anticipation, almost in disbelief knowing she would be reunited with her granddaughter. Maikelys Antonella Espinosa Bernal, the two-year-old who became the latest symbol of Nicolás Maduro’s demands on Donald Trump, arrived in Venezuela in the morning. Her mother had reported her “kidnapping” the day the girl was handed over to a foster family in the United States, depriving her parents of their right to be with her.

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