Nicolás Maduro's regime announced the repatriation of 250 Venezuelans from Peru

The Venezuelan regime announced on Wednesday that at least 250 Venezuelans will return to the Caribbean country from Peru with the government plan “Vuelta a la Patria”, which was launched in September 2018, to facilitate the return of migrants who were victims of xenophobia in receiving countries.

The Foreign Ministry explained in a statement released on its website that this Wednesday an Airbus A340-300 aircraft departed from the Venezuelan state company Conviasa to Peru for a “new day” of repatriation.

He also said that this is the first flight to the Andean country in 2022 in which the return of “more” than 250 Venezuelans is estimated and added that there has already been a return of 97 citizens from Guayaquil, Ecuador.

The agency indicated that, since its creation, the “Return to the Homeland Plan” has repatriated a total of 28,020 citizens, compared to 6,041,690 people who have left the Caribbean country in the face of the crisis it is experiencing, according to the Regional Interagency Coordination Platform for Refugees and Migrants of Venezuela (R4V).

This platform estimates that, of this total number of migrants, 4,992,215 live in Latin America and the Caribbean.

On February 3, the dictator of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, promised that from March the flights of the government plan would triple.

“For the months of March onwards, we are going to have a new phase of the Vuelta a la Patria Plan, we are going to triple the number of flights to bring Venezuelans who are already registered in the plan,” he said in a ceremony broadcast on the state channel Venezolana de Televisión (VTV).

Maduro said 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 Ministry of National Security of Trinidad and Tobago reported on February 12 that it completed a process of repatriation of 38 Venezuelan migrants who had tried to enter the country illegally.

This was the second such process after the repatriation a day before 35 of the 39 Venezuelans who were arrested on February 6 after a shooting in which the Trinidadian coast guard killed a baby.

The Coast Guard justified their action by saying that they fired in an attempt to arrest migrants and in “self-defense”, claiming that Venezuelan citizens had tried to “ram” them.

(With information from EFE)

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