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A group of about 210 citizens of Venezuelan nationality celebrates their seventh consecutive night spending the night outside the Venezuelan Embassy in Santiago, after losing their jobs and in some cases their homes in the midst of the Covid-19 health emergency.
ROPROVIDENCE: The number of Venezuelan citizens spending the night on the outskirts of the embassy of that country increases, a situation that has lasted for a week. @_felipecofre collect live testimonials by @Cooperative #CooperativaEnCasa
– Gonzalo B. # QuédateEnCasa (@gbarrerac) May 11, 2020
With some tents and others “with their clothes on,” Venezuelans continue to arrive at this makeshift camp in front of the diplomatic legation located on Calle Bustos, in the Providencia district, to request a space for the flights included in the plan. “Plan back to the homeland” programmed by the government of Nicolás Maduro, whose last trip left for Caracas last Wednesday.
In the group there are also pregnant women, the elderly and children, those who have passed the cold dawn mornings in the open.
The return to their own country is unfeasible for this group of people, especially after the health crisis caused by the new coronavirus, which has exacerbated their living conditions and has left some unemployed and unable to support themselves.
Outside the Venezuelan embassy, about 210 people have already spent a week spending the night in the open. Seniors, even children as young as 5 months, sleep on the ground waiting for a humanitarian flight. #CooperativaEnCasa pic.twitter.com/48jRFiIPD0
– Felipe Cofré (@_felipecofre) May 11, 2020
Wilson, one of the members of the group, told Cooperative than to access a quota of the Plan back to the homeland “they are asking for various requirements, but most of us do not have that. They are asking for a money that I do not have and it is difficult for me, in addition to other requirements that we are not aware of. It’s supposed to be a humanitarian flight, I don’t understand how that is explained. “
“We have been here since last Monday, since most of us are on the street”, said the migrant, demanding “a prompt response from the government, that they send a plane in which we can return soon.”
“I have been around for a year and I was out of a job. Economically I am bad, I do not have to rent a piece,” he added.
Alejandro Parada, another of the migrants, said that “we were looking for dreams that were not fulfilled because the world was changed by the pandemic and We need President Nicolás Maduro to board us on the next flight, which they say arrives on Monday. “
Thousands of Venezuelans were left in a vulnerable situation after the quarantines decreed by the coronavirus pandemic in Chile, which already leaves 28,866 infected and 312 deaths.
Venezuelans constitute the first immigrant community in Chile with 400,000 people, according to official 2019 records.
Although they started arriving in 2010, it was in the last three years that many made the trip by land, on a journey of up to 15 days from Caracas, until Chile imposed immigration restrictions last year that left thousands stranded on the border with Peru. .
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