2024-08-07 09:56:25
Latin America fears a new wave of migration Venezuelans. Over the past decade, 7.5 million people have left the Caribbean country, according to the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR).
Jose Vasquez, a resident of Tachira, Venezuelaexpressed his frustration after the re-election of the president Nicolas Maduro, denounced as fraudulent by the opposition. “There is no light at the end of the tunnel. I am leaving,” he said with discouragement Vásquez, who, despite studying education, works as a salesman due to the low salaries of teachers.
San Cristobalthe capital of Táchira, a state in the west of the country, was deserted after the vote due to fears of unrest. “There is anxiety, uncertainty,” said Vásquez, who recalled the violent protests of 2014, 2017 y 2019.
The pollster ORC Consultants projected that 18% of Venezuelans could migrate in the next six months if Maduro remained in power, which would represent 5.4 million people out of a population of 30 million.
Vásquez, 31, plans to join his relatives in Spain.I’m sad, tired bored. “It was a blatant robbery,” he lamented.
So far this year, around 200,000 migrants have crossed the Darien, two-thirds of them Venezuelans. This issue is central to the presidential campaign of USA, especially for Donald Trump, who is seeking to return to the White House with a stronger anti-immigrant discourse.
On the other hand, the Observatory of Social Research on the Border (ODISEF) In Táchira, he warned about the vulnerability of migrants to human trafficking networks and criminal organizations. The United Nations estimates that the five Latin American countries with the highest number of Venezuelan migrants are Colombia, Peru, Brazil, Chile and Ecuador.
He National Border Service of Panama announced that security measures will be reinforced in the area. In this regard, the vice president of Chile, Carolina Toha, He expressed concern about the possible intensification of the migration wave. “The migration wave has not stopped for a minute,” he said. Peru, for its part, has reinforced its immigration controls. “We cannot accommodate (migrants) on the scale of the previous exodus,” warned the Peruvian foreign minister, Javier González-Olaechea.
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2024-08-07 09:56:25