Around 450,000 Venezuelan migrants reside in Ecuador, a part of which took advantage of regularization programs between 2019 and 2020
A group of 94 migrants returned to Venezuela from Ecuador this Saturday, less than 30 days after President Nicolás Maduro promised to reinforce the so-called Plan Vuelta a la Patria, which he launched in September 2018, to facilitate the return of Venezuelans who -assured- suffered xenophobia in recipient countries.
The president promised, on October 7, to reinforce the plan so that “all Venezuelans who want to return from Chile, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia” could return.
The Foreign Ministry reported that the returnees this Saturday were in the Ecuadorian city of Guayaquil, and that they had complied with all biosafety measures for their return to Venezuela.
The Chancellor of the Caribbean country, Félix Plasencia, indicated that the repatriated migrants were transferred in a plane of the Venezuelan airline Conviasa that landed in Ecuador during the last morning.
At the beginning of October, another 200 Venezuelans returned from Chile with this program, after the attacks on migrants that occurred at the end of September in the city of Iquique, in northern Chile, in a massive concentration that ended in violent incidents.
However, others decided to remain in Chile, despite Maduro’s offer, which was transmitted, personally, by the Venezuelan ambassador to the Andean country, Arévalo Méndez, whose proposal was rejected considering that the political and economic conditions do not exist. to return to their home nation.
According to official data, in Ecuador there are around 450,000 Venezuelan migrants, a part of whom took advantage of regularization programs between 2019 and 2020, although the majority still do not have the documentation required by the authorities, which makes it difficult to include them in the society.
According to data from the Venezuelan Foreign Ministry, to date more than 26,000 Venezuelans have returned through the Plan Vuelta a la Patria ”plan, 10,000 of them in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. (I)
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