The second victim is a six-month-old baby, of Bolivian nationality, who died in another area of Colchane after crossing with his family.
A 78-year-old woman and a six-month-old baby died this weekend while trying to enter Chile through the inhospitable northern border with Bolivia, where a migratory and humanitarian crisis unparalleled in recent years has been going on for a year.
The 78-year-old woman of Venezuelan nationality died on Saturday night while health personnel were treating her in a border area of the Colchane commune, almost 2,000 kilometers north of the capital, after her relatives warned that she was evil.
The second victim is a six-month-old baby, of Bolivian nationality, who died in another area of Colchane after crossing the wild highlands with his family.
The inclement high plateau passes continue to form the main irregular entry route to Chile, which remains one of the most attractive countries to migrate within Latin America due to its political and economic stability, despite the pandemic and the social crisis of 2019.
So far this year at least five people have died, while in 2021 there were more than twenty deaths.
Conservative former president Sebastián Piñera decreed on February 17 the State of Exception in the provinces of Arica, Parinacota, Tamarugal and El Loa, which in practice implies a militarization.
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