The state channel VTV indicated that through the project 27,537 Venezuelans from various countries have been voluntarily repatriated.
The Foreign Minister of Venezuela, Félix Plasencia, reiterated this Saturday that the Government of his country is committed to the “implementation” of plans for the return of national migrants, and cited as an example the government program known as “Return to the Homeland Plan”.
“On International Migrants Day we want to underline our commitment to the implementation of plans, such as Vuelta a la Patria, to facilitate the migration of return of all our compatriots abroad, as President Nicolás Maduro has instructed, ”Plasencia said on his Twitter account.
Faced with the Venezuelan exodus, which started more than five years ago due to the decline of the country’s socioeconomic conditions, the Maduro government launched the Plan Vuelta a la Patria, with which support is offered to migrants who voluntarily wish to return.
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On December 8, when 92 Venezuelans returned from Peru with this plan, the state channel VTV indicated that Through the project, 27,537 Venezuelans have been voluntarily repatriated from 19 countries.
However, according to data from the UN Coordination Platform for Refugees and Migrants from Venezuela (R4V), 6,038,937 Venezuelan migrants have left their country Faced with the current crisis, of which 4,992,664 are in Latin America and the Caribbean.
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In this regard, the Foreign Minister urged the governments of Latin America to respect the human rights of migrants and avoid any promotion to acts that generate rejection towards Venezuelans abroad.
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We urge the governments of the region, regardless of their political status, to respect the human rights of all migrants and stop promoting any act of xenophobia against the Venezuelan migrant population.
The Chancellor stressed.
Earlier, President Maduro sent a message from his Twitter condemning acts of hatred and xenophobia against Venezuelans and in which he recalled that in his country they have received “millions” of migrants from other nations. (I)
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