According to The Great Survey conducted by the firm Yan Hass S.A and funded by FM, RCN Radio, RCN Television and La República, to the question, “The massive presence of Venezuelans has affected you or your family,” 48% of respondents said yes, while the remaining 52% responded negatively.
The survey shows that Bogotá is the city where they say they are most affected by the massive presence of Venezuelans, with 67% of Bogotans responding in the affirmative, while the Pacifica region is where they say they are least affected by this phenomenon, given that only 36% answered yes.
Faced with the serious problems that Venezuela continues to face, the UN for Refugees (UNHCR) expects that by next year in Colombia 7 million Venezuelan migrants will already be registered throughout the country.
The phenomenon of mass migration is evident daily in the different cities of the country. Despite the fact that the vast majority are families and citizens who come to Colombia in search of better living conditions, isolated cases of criminals of that nationality and the growing perception of insecurity associated with mass migration, have caused many Colombians to worry that more people continue to arrive from the neighboring country.
These results show that mass migration is not only a matter of concern for citizens, but also on the political agenda of the next rulers and legislators, since the needs of Venezuelan migrants and refugees will require $1.79 billion in 2022, approximately 6.987 billion dollars. pesos, according to a humanitarian response plan published by the UN.
In addition, to the question “believes that Colombia is at risk of ending up with Venezuela, politically, socially and economically”, 66% of Colombians feel that the country is at risk of ending up like the neighboring country in political, social and economic matters.
In a new wave of criticism against the presidential candidate of the Historical Pact, Gustavo Petro Urrego, the representative of the United States House, Maria Elvira Salazar, returned to throw vehement questions and predict for Colombia a supposed grim picture if today's senator of Human Colombia comes to power.
Through a video posted on her official Twitter account, the fellow Cuban-born journalist accused the Colombian politician of having “ties with terrorists in Latin America” and confronted him with her past approaches with Bernie Sanders, one of the figures on the gringo left.
Salazar, who has made himself known in Colombia for his closeness to the Florida-based compatriots, and who has repeatedly lashed out at Gustavo Petro, wondered in his publication “what could anyone offer with such friends?” and immediately delivered the answer: “Misery, destruction and, in the end, exile,” he said.
In the video published by the congresswoman of the United States, the presidential candidate responds to W Radio, where he talks about his ties with Sanders, which Maria Elvira Salazar didn't like at all.
In other parts of her Twitter attack, María Elvira Salazar urged Colombians to “take a good look and hear well” about who they will choose to direct the country's destinies in the period 2022-2026 and to avoid repeating, supposedly, the political models of Cuba and Venezuela.
He reiterated to the Colombian people to be “very careful”: Those are siren songs. The only intentions that Petro has are those that Chavez had in Venezuela and Fidel in Cuba. Destroy the country for their benefit, because they are in the business of power. Not to give benefits to peoples”, he concluded.
This is not the first time that María Elvira Salazar has launched herself against whoever is leading the voting intentions for the Colombian Presidency, at the end of 2021 she assured that Gustavo Petro “is a thief, a socialist, a Marxist, a terrorist and is leading the polls of the Colombian Presidency”.
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