Venezuela.- This Wednesday the president of Venezuela, Nicholas Maduro announced that as of March, the government will triple the flights called “Back to the Homeland Plan”as part of the strengthening of the program launched in 2018 to facilitate the return of migrants.
In a message broadcast on the national network, the Venezuelan president announced that this new phase of the program intends to increase the capacity to return Venezuelans who are already enrolled in the plan.
Nicolás Maduro assured that many of the Venezuelans who left the country in search of better economic opportunities, hhave been victims of discrimination and xenophobia that has been implanted against Venezuela.
“They attack them, like the attack that recently took place in Chile, again, in the same camp, they attack them with hatred, contempt, xenophobia, with fascism,” express.
As mentioned by the news agency, EFE, this announcement is made just a few days after various blockades and commercial closures were registered in the city of Iquique in Chile as part of the repudiation of crime and the irregular migration crisis that the country faces. and that has begun to affect the area.
According to various media in the region, this situation also generated blockades around the airports, preventing activities and flights from taking place that day.
As mentioned, this enormous mobilization in which more than 4,000 people participated on Sunday, January 30, arose as a result of the fact that last week there was an attack on the police in the city by four Venezuelans.
Like this recent event, last September, dozens of angry protesters burned tents belonging to Venezuelan immigrants who spent the night in the public space of the city.
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As revealed by the Venezuelan government until December of last year, through this project 27,537 Venezuelans from 19 countries have been voluntarily repatriated.
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