The Minister of People’s Power for Foreign Affairs, Jorge Arreaza, said that Venezuelans who return to the country through the “Vuelta a la Patria” (Return to the Homeland) plan promoted by the National Executive, do so after finding xenophobia, unemployment and discrimination.
“Studies carried out with compatriots who return with the Vuelta a la Patria Plan reflect expectations and misleading campaigns that drove them out, and xenophobia, unemployment and discrimination that make them return. Another group returned from Ecuador. There are extensive waiting lists”, he said this Sunday through his Twitter account.
The message was accompanied by a video in which is shown the arrival of the eighth flight with Venezuelan men and women returning to the country from Ecuador. In the material, the interviewees relate the harsh reality they had to live during their stay in the South American nation, where they faced discrimination, labor exploitation and sexual violence.
A total of 8,484 people have been repatriated with the Vuelta a la Patria Plan, which has used air and land modalities for the transfer of Venezuelans from countries such as Brazil, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Argentina, Dominican Republic, Chile. and Panama.
