Tag: Venezuelan exodus

• Saturday, December 15th 2018 - 09:34 UTC

  UN forecasts 2 million Venezuelans will emigrate in 2019

  

  Around two million more Venezuelans are expected to flee their country during 2019, according to a United Nations forecast released Friday in Geneva. If true, the total number of Venezuelan migrants could reach 5.3 million a year from now.

• Wednesday, October 31st 2018 - 18:51 UTC

  Venezuelan refugees line up at Peruvian border as immigration deadline looms over

  

  As Peru's deadline for granting residency nears, 6,000 Venezuelans lined up at the border Peru's Tuesday hoping to be allowed in, while 4,000 more are expected to join in the next two days, according to the ombudsman's office.

• Monday, October 8th 2018 - 16:36 UTC

  UNHCR calls “monumental crisis” the migration of Venezuelans

  

  The UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi, made a visit to the Colombian-Venezuelan border to understand the dimensions of the exodus of Venezuelans that, according to the UN statistics, 1.9 million have left Venezuela since 2015 due the Venezuela's economic and social situation.

• Wednesday, September 26th 2018 - 09:08 UTC

  “Thank you Donald Trump, for surrounding me with dignity” replies Maduro next to US sanctioned officials

  

  Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro replied to Donald Trump's UN speech saying his comments were an apology for America’s history of colonialism in the region and offered words of support for the sanctioned officials who joined him during an event broadcast over state television.

• Friday, September 7th 2018 - 09:22 UTC

  Latin American countries will receive Venezuelan migrants even with expired documents

  

  Eleven Latin American countries say that they have agreed to allow Venezuelans leaving their homeland to enter their countries even if their travel documents have expired. More than 2.3 million Venezuelans have fled the country's hyperinflation and severe shortages, but many do not have valid passports because renewing them can take years.

• Thursday, August 30th 2018 - 09:11 UTC

  Emergency in Brazil: 700/800 Venezuelans cross the border daily, claims Temer

  

  The Brazilian government may restrict entrance of Venezuelans at the border in the remote northwestern state of Roraima, President Michel Temer said on Wednesday, after a flood of migrants has strained local services and sparked violence with residents.

• Thursday, August 30th 2018 - 08:29 UTC

  Migrants returning to Venezuela following Maduro's promise of jobs

  

  A group of Venezuelan migrants has returned home from Peru at the expense of Nicolas Maduro's government. Facing an exodus from Venezuela, Maduro had proclaimed his countrymen “won't be slaves to anyone in the world.”

• Tuesday, August 28th 2018 - 08:30 UTC

  Exodus of Venezuelan migrants comparable to “Mediterranean refugees” events, says UN office

  

  The exodus of migrants from Venezuela is building towards a “crisis moment” comparable to events involving refugees in the Mediterranean, the United Nations migration agency said.

• Thursday, August 23rd 2018 - 09:12 UTC

  The democratic challenge to dictatorships and xenophobia in Latin America

  

  During the conference entitled “The democratic challenge to the autocracies of the 21st century in Latin America,” organized by the Center for the Opening and Development of Latin America (CADAL) on Tuesday at the Senate of Uruguay, the Government of Venezuela was described as a “dictatorship” and it was exhorted that the democratic governments of the region, especially the Uruguayan government, not be indifferent or “accomplices” against today’s Latin America’s autocratic governments.

• 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.