The Bolivian government on Sunday blamed travel agencies for the expulsion of 20 Bolivian citizens from France, according to reports from La Paz.
Last Monday, 20 Bolivian travelers, who were heading for Spain's Madrid via Venezuela's Caracas and then France's Paris, were sent back to Venezuela without any explanations, said a report of the Bolivian News Agency.
Weimar Pereira, chief of the Venezuelan National Migration Service, said that should be the fault of those travel agencies, which had sold tickets to the Bolivians without guaranteeing the full legality of the whole trip.
But both Pereira and Bolivia's embassy in Caracas said most of the passengers had medical insurance, money and hotel reservations required by the European authorities.
Meanwhile, another 49 Bolivians were prevented from leaving Caracas when they were boarding Air France flights.
Seven of them returned to Bolivia, and three others found a way to continue their trip.
Pereira said Venezuela supplied the Bolivians with food and organized a chartered flight to take those detained in Caracas back home together.