A plane carrying the deportees touched down early Monday at Maiquetia International Airport outside the capital Caracas.
Live footage showed young men in sweatsuits walking off the plane. Some of them were seen smiling and clapping as officials looked on.
It was the latest in a string of repatriations of Venezuelan migrants since US President Donald Trump took office in January.
“We are ready to receive Venezuelans wherever they are,“ he added.
But then Washington deported 238 Venezuelans accused of belonging to the Tren de Aragua gang, which Trump has designated a foreign terrorist organization, to a maximum-security prison in El Salvador, a move deeply criticized by Caracas.
The migrants were deported via Honduras, the US State Department’s Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs said.
Last month, Trump revoked permission for oil giant Chevron to operate in Venezuela -- a blow to Caracas’s wobbly economy.
The countries broke off diplomatic relations in 2019, during Trump’s first term, after Washington recognized then-opposition leader Juan Guaido as “interim president” following 2018 elections widely rejected as neither free nor fair.
Washington did not recognize Maduro’s reelection last year to a third six-year term in a vote he is widely accused of stealing.
Then Trump invoked the wartime Alien Enemies Act to target Tren de Aragua, and sparked anger by reaching a deal with Salvadoran leader Nayib Bukele to use his Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT) outside San Salvador.
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