BBC Mundo

The travel restrictions on Venezuela (it it on the list of seven countries with a partial ban, alongside Cuba, Laos, and others) is yet another blow to Venezuelans.

It adds to previous measures taken by Trump, such as revoking TPS — a status that protected 350,000 Venezuelans residing in the United States.

"We are not criminals," said one Venezuelan man who asked to remain anonymous. "Nothing surprises me anymore, but every day a new line is crossed."

"We’ve gone from being a powerful country to being the lowest of the low," he added.

"Not only is it unfair, it is deeply inconsistent," wrote Venezuelan journalist Alejandra Oraá on X. She lives in the US.

"Many Venezuelans have had to leave precisely because their rights and freedoms were taken away by the [Maduro] regime — the same one this [Trump] administration claims to be fighting."

We also heard about a woman who was visiting her daughter in Miami after seven years apart.

"Now she has to return home with the painful uncertainty of when she’ll see them again," her nephew told us.

It is difficult and expensive for Venezuelans to obtain a tourist or student visa. The US embassy in Caracas has been closed since 2019, forcing applicants to travel to a third country to apply.

As a reminder, Trump's executive order says: "Venezuela lacks a competent or cooperative central authority for issuing passports or civil documents and it does not have appropriate screening and vetting measures. Venezuela has historically refused to accept back its removable nationals. According to the Overstay Report, Venezuela had a B 1/B-2 visa overstay rate of 9.83 percent."