FILE - Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro greets young supporters marching against U.S. sanctions, in Caracas, Venezuela, May 17, 2024. As Maduro seeks a third term, he has slowly transformed into a defender for migrants, challenging news reports linking some to criminal activities and accusing immigration authorities in other countries of abusing Venezuelans. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos, File)
FILE - Youths are showered with foam during a march against U.S. sanctions, which was eventually addressed by President Nicolas Maduro, in Caracas, Venezuela, May 17, 2024. Low wages were the only reason cited at the march by some high school students who acknowledged they are considering migrating later this year. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos, File)
FILE - Venezuelan politician Diosdado Cabello greets supporters during an event marking the 10th anniversary of Hugo Chavez's death, in Caracas, Venezuela, March 15, 2023. Cabello once deemed images of his fellow citizens abandoning their home country the result of a professionally scripted, "Hollywood-type blockbuster." (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix, File)
FILE - Venezuelan migrant Alejando Colmenares lines up with other migrants to take a boat in Bajo Chiquito, Darien province, Panama, Oct. 5, 2023. President Nicolas Maduro, who is working towards reelection, is promising job opportunities to lure Venezuelans to return or not leave. (AP Photo/Arnulfo Franco, File)
FILE - Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, who is seeking to extend his presidency for six more years, greets supporters during a march by evangelical Christinas in defense of the original family model marking Family Day, in Caracas, Venezuela, May 15, 2024. Under Maduro's 11-year presidency, more than 7.7 million Venezuelans have abandoned their homeland. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos, File)
FILE - People wait in line to register to vote in the upcoming presidential elections, in Caracas, Venezuela, March 21, 2024. The election will take place July 28 – the birthday of the country's late leader Hugo Chávez. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos, File)
FILE - A supporter holds up a banner with images of opposition leader Maria Corina Machado and presidential candidate Edmundo Gonzalez, during a campaign rally in Maracaibo, Venezuela, May 2, 2024. Venezuela's opposition is rallying behind the unknown former diplomat to challenge Nicolas Maduro in the July 28th presidential election. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos, File)
People march past a mural depicting the eyes of the late President Hugo Chavez, as they protest for higher retirement pensions, in Caracas, Venezuela, Wednesday, May 29, 2024. A nationwide poll conducted last month by the Venezuela-based research firm Delphos showed of those thinking about migrating, about 47% said an electoral win by the opposition would make them stay and roughly the same amount indicated that an improved economy would also keep them in their home country. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)
FILE - Migrants, mostly Venezuelans, walk across the Darien Gap from Colombia into Panama, hoping to reach the U.S., Oct. 15, 2022. President Nicolás Maduro publicly denied for years that millions of people were literally walking away from Venezuela. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara, File)
FILE - Former diplomat Edmundo González Urrutia flashes a V hand sign accompanied by opposition leader Mariana Corina Machado, as he kicks off his presidential campaign, in La Victoria, Venezuela, May 18, 2024. González asked supporters to imagine "a country in which our airports and borders would be filled with our children returning home" should he win. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos, File)