2023-04-28 03:09:11
- UN data shows that the majority of Venezuelan migrants in Peru have a higher educational level than the local population. Photo: EFE
The president of Peru, Dina Boluarte, has joined the criminalizing discourse of Venezuelans by blaming migrants from the former oil country for crime in her country, a statement that the data does not support, but that has not generated criticism, but support. among the Peruvian population.
Peru is the second country in the world that has welcomed the most Venezuelans since the exodus caused by a frequently used political crisis began. Different crimes that have had a great social impact, and information display, have contributed to criminalize a population that, for the most part, works and only seeks to find a better future.
These are some key data on Venezuelan migration in Peru.
1. It is the second country in the world with the most Venezuelans
1.5 million Venezuelans live in Peru, which makes it the second country in the world that has received the most migrants since the exodus from the country began, only behind Colombia, where 2.5 million live.
The majority, just over a million, live in Lima, which makes the Peruvian capital the second city in the world with the most Venezuelans, behind Caracas and in direct competition with Maracaibo, the historic Venezuelan oil capital.
According to UN data, the refugees and migrants from Venezuela who have arrived in Peru “are mostly young, of working age, with an average educational level higher than that of the local population and willing to relocate to other cities or regions of the country for labor reasons”.
2. A great contribution to the Peruvian State
According to data released by the UN and based on a study by the Peruvian-Venezuelan Business Chamber (Cavenpe) and the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) Foundation, Venezuelans contributed 0.02% of Peruvian GDP in 2020.
The same United Nations document shows that in taxes related to consumption, Venezuelan migration generated income for the Peruvian treasury of some 88.3 million dollars.
In addition, if the qualified professionals who have arrived from Venezuela had studied in Peru, developing this human capital would have cost the State around 13 billion soles (about 3.5 billion dollars), according to the Cavenpe-KAS study cited by the UN. .
3. An educated population
The latest Survey of the Venezuelan Population residing in Peru (Enpove 2022), carried out by the National Institute of Statistics and Informatics (INEI) and also cited by the UN, indicated that 31.8% of Venezuelans of legal age have studies in Higher education (university and/or higher technical) completed.
Among them, there are professionals in the area of engineering, industry and construction (22.9%), educators (19%) and business administrators (16.7%).
These Venezuelans, always according to the UN, “could help to close the gap of professionals required in the different regions of the country and contribute to a greater extent to the sustainable economic development of Peru.”
4. “Venezuelans doing the wrong thing”
“The police have stopped me because there are Venezuelans who are doing the wrong thing,” a citizen of the Caribbean country explained to EFE this week. A worker, like many, of the home delivery services, which together with the taxis by application work essentially thanks to the Venezuelans, he has perceived the increase in controls by the authorities.
The reason, the great social impact that different crimes committed by Venezuelans have had in Peru and whose coverage by the media is constant and with a great display of information.
In this regard, the representative of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (Acnur) in Peru, Federico Agusti, recently warned EFE that there had been an increase in discourses of criminalization of Venezuelan migrants and called “for the means to be very responsible in the use of information”.
5. The data
According to data detailed by Agusti on Venezuelan crime figures, “in the prison system there are currently about 2,400 Venezuelans out of a total of about 100,000” inmates, which represents “about 2% of the prison population in Peru.”
“When you compare it with the perception, it seems that it was the majority, but those 2,400 represent 0.1% of the Venezuelan population (in Peru). You cannot, for that 0.1%, have an impact on the vast majority, ”he remarked.
However, the perception that Peru has of the Venezuelan population continues to worsen, using criminalization discourses like the one used by Boluarte this Wednesday, words pronounced by the ultimate political officer of the police and military that could have a direct impact on 1.5 million people who, desperate, left their country in search of a better future.
With information from EFE.
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