Tag: Inmigrants

• Sunday, August 19th 2018 - 18:26 UTC

  Complications for the diaspora: Venezuelans can only flee with a passport to Peru or Ecuador

  

  The Ministry of the Interior of Peru has announced that as of the dawn of next Saturday, August 25, Venezuelans will be required to present their passport to be admitted to the country. This measure coincides with that taken by Ecuador this week when it reached record figures in the entry of Venezuelan citizens in that country. The National Superintendency of Migrations of Peru recorded last Saturday the largest number of Venezuelan citizens who entered the country in a single day: more than 5,100.

• Saturday, July 14th 2018 - 07:44 UTC

  UN agrees first-ever Global Compact on migration

  

  For the first time ever, United Nations Member States have agreed an all-encompassing Global Compact to better manage international migration, address its challenges, strengthen migrant rights and contribute to sustainable development.

• Tuesday, June 26th 2018 - 08:46 UTC

  Pence visits Brazil: children separated from parents and Venezuela refugees in the agenda

  

  President Michel Temer will press U.S. Vice President Mike Pence during his two-day visit to Brazil on cases of Brazilian children separated from their parents upon trying to enter the United States, a Brazilian diplomat said on Monday.

• Wednesday, February 7th 2018 - 21:55 UTC

  Colombian government refuses to close its border with Venezuela

  

  At least 8,000 Venezuelans cross the border between Colombia and Venezuela daily to the department of Arauca, southeast of Colombia. Although the migratory flow at this point does not compare with the thirty or forty thousand Venezuelans who cross the Simón Bolívar bridge between Santander and Táchira every day, in Arauca the majority of migrants arrive in conditions of extreme vulnerability.