2023-05-02 21:32:20
For two weeks, migrants have remained on the border between Peru and Chile / Photo: AP
The Interior Minister of Peru, Vicente Romero, reported that some 5,000 Venezuelans seek to leave the country within the six-month period granted by the authorities, so that they can regularize their documents.
During a visit to the Peruvian border with Ecuador, the official told public television that they found the figure while analyzing the immigration problem.
He also indicated that Peru is holding diplomatic meetings with Chile, Ecuador, Colombia and Venezuela to resolve a crisis that broke out more than two weeks ago on the border with Chile, where undocumented migrants, mostly Venezuelans, are camping in Chilean territory while trying to leave. from the country.
Peru announced last week that it will not allow the entry of migrants without documents in the midst of the start of the process of regularization of documents for foreigners living in Peru, which will last six months.
Peruvian authorities indicated on Tuesday that more than 400,000 migrants have fines that might be amnestied if they regularize their papers. Many did not carry out a residence extension process or have an excess stay in the country.
The almost daily tension on the border between Peru and Chile has led to the presence of police from both countries. During the morning a group of migrants remained for several minutes standing in the middle of the road that unites both countries as a form of protest once morest the governments of Peru and Chile.
The office in Peru of the United Nations refugee agency said in 2022 that Venezuelans in Peru constitute almost 3.5% of the population of some 33 million and that Lima —where there are 1.1 million Venezuelans— is the first city in the world in number of displaced Venezuelan people.
Lima / With information from AP
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