«Venezuela is recognized in all the multilateral migration forums for being a country with an equitable treatment of the migrant compared to the nationals, and we are the only country in the region that signed the agreement for the migrant worker for the benefit of equality and equal treatment to the migrant».
The statement was made by Eulalia Tabares, director of Consular Relations of the Ministry of People’s Power for Foreign Affairs, referring to the treatment of those who decided to live in Venezuela, whose migrant population is around 30%, mostly of Colombian, European, Asian and Arabic.
On the subject of Venezuelan migration, Tabares said that this is a purely economic phenomenon. Precisely about 70% of those who migrated did so for economic reasons due to the crisis resulting from the blockade imposed by the US government.
Of this 70% who left the country with the expectation of substantially improving their economic situation, he continued explaining, 48% returned for this same reason to be in other countries with worse situations of exploitation of children, women in pregnancy, violence and xenophobia, he said.
In response to this problem comes the Vuelta a la Patria (Return to the Homeland) Plan, a program that was created as a result of the request made by a group of Venezuelans in Peru, who could not return to the country due to the terrible economic conditions in which they were.
Tabares, during the «Derechos Humanos en Revolución» (Human Rights in Revolution) program, broadcast by RNV’s Informative channel, stressed that to date this massive repatriation plan, unique in the world, has achieved the voluntary return by air and land of 14,177 Venezuelans.
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