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“We urge [a Claudia López] to speak out and publicly retract any xenophobic statement that fosters hatred against our nationals“Says a communication sent to the mayor by the Foreign Policy Commission of the AN, with a notable majority opposed to the Nicolás Maduro regime.
The parliament of that country refers to what López said after Waiter Oswaldo Muñoz was assassinated in a Transmilenio bus, in the north of Bogotá, for stealing his cell phone. The initial clues suggest that the perpetrators of the crime include Venezuelan citizens. That is one more fact that shows that homicides in the capital are on the rise and are not simple perception.
A few hours after the country learned of Muñoz’s death, López said: “I do not want to stigmatize, nor was it lacking, Venezuelans, but there are some immigrants involved in criminality who are making our lives squares.” And then he warned that “Whoever comes to earn a decent living, fine; But whoever comes to commit a crime, we should deport him without contemplation”.
In the communication sent by the committee of the Venezuelan Parliament reject “forcefully” said statements in which they assure that “it refers to Venezuelans as ‘criminals’ and causing the increase in crime in Bogotá.”
“We respectfully send you this communication, in order to reiterate that Venezuelans have abandoned their land, fleeing the dictatorship of Nicolás Maduro, many of whom are in Bogotá ”, reads the communication sent to López, 11 days after it occurred.
But that of the Venezuelan Parliament It is not the only voice of rejection that has been raised in that country against what López said. The influential newspaper El Nacional also criticized the mayor with an editorial under the title ‘Xenophobia bogotana’, in which he assures that her expressions show that “she does not understand social phenomena.”
The members of the AN assure that many of these migrants “have contributed to progress and have been tax generators”.
They also refer to the statements of the Director of Migration Colombia, Juan Francisco Espinosa, who explained that he rejected any criminal act, but clarified that foreigners cannot be held exclusively responsible for the public order situation in Bogotá.
“Of the 21,812 catches in flagrante delicto in Bogotá, 1,874 are of Venezuelan citizens. […] In other words, we do not find that criminality in Colombia can be explained from Venezuelan migration, “said the official, citing data from the Attorney General’s Office.
According to the UN, about five million Venezuelans have left the country in recent years as a result of the crisis they are experiencing.
Of these, just over 1.7 million have settled in Colombia, a country that many have crossed, sometimes on foot, to reach other destinations in the region.
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