Maduro assured that Venezuelans left the country looking for a “better economic opportunity”, but there has been “a lot of discrimination, a lot of xenophobia that has been sown against Venezuela”.
The Government of Venezuela announced on Tuesday the start of a new phase of the government program “Back to the Homeland Plan”, which was launched in September 2018.
This, to facilitate the return of migrants who were victims of xenophobia in recipient countries.
The Foreign Ministry, through a statement published on its website, indicated that the first route of this new stage will be Ecuador.
This through a state line flight Conviasa, which will be destined for the José Joaquín Olmedo International Airport, in Guayaquil.
In the letter he did not clarify when this flight will be from Ecuador and how many Venezuelans will return.
The Foreign Ministry added that, to date, 27,816 Venezuelans from 19 countries have returned with the “Back to the Homeland Plan”.
The program keeps “As a premise, solidarity, attention and humanity, as well as the guarantee of social reintegration through the different programs that are currently being carried out in the country.”
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On February 3, the president of Venezuela, Nicholas Maduro, He promised that from March the flights of the government plan would be tripled.
“For the months of March onwards, we are going to have a new phase of the Return to the Homeland Plan. We are going to triple the number of flights that we are going to do to bring the Venezuelans who are already enrolled in the plan,” indicated in an act broadcast by the state channel Venezolana de Televisión (VTV).
The Ministry of National Security of Trinidad and Tobago reported on February 12 that it completed a repatriation process for 38 Venezuelan migrants.
This is the second process of these characteristics after the repatriation one day before 35 of the 39 Venezuelans. These were arrested on February 6 after a shooting in which the Trinidadian coast guard They ended the life of a baby.
The coast guards have justified that they fired in an attempt to stop the migrants and in “self-defense”, claiming that they had tried “ramming them”.
According to the Regional Interagency Coordination Platform for Refugees and Migrants from Venezuela (R4V), 6,041,690 people have left the oil country in the face of the crisis it is experiencing. Of this figure, 4,992,215 live in Latin America and the Caribbean.