U.S. officials agreed to allocate $578 million for humanitarian assistance. Of the total, $83 million will be used by the United States Agency for International Development to address cases of vulnerable Venezuelans.
The fact was confirmed during the Third Ministerial Meeting of the Los Angeles Declaration on Migration and Protectionan event held in Guatemala.
The funds will aim to provide food, nutritional and health support to Venezuelan migrants and refugees, as well as others in the region, a humanitarian assistance that Washington described as an “urgent”.
The United States Department of State will also allocate more than $376 million for the humanitarian needs of refugees, asylum seekers, internally displaced persons, stateless persons and vulnerable migrantsseeking to promote safe, orderly and humane migration management.
According to figures from the Inter-Managerial Coordination Platform for Refugees and Migrants from Venezuela, the number of people who have left the country in recent years is 7.7 million. Of the total, 84% (6.5 million people) are located in Latin American and Caribbean countries.
These data, in the opinion of the organization, “They represent the sum of Venezuelan refugees, migrants, and asylum seekers notified by the host governments”.
The Platform clarified that its figures do not necessarily imply individual identification, and “may include a degree of estimation, depending on the statistical data processing methodology of each government”.
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2024-07-09 20:58:34
