A plane carrying more than a hundred Venezuelan migrants left Chile on Sunday, in a repatriation flight for people who have been stranded for weeks at the northern border with Peru.
Venezuelan migrants board a bus that will take them to a shelter in the city of Arica, Chile on May 5, 2023. – A first repatriation flight for hundreds of Venezuelan migrants stranded on the border with Peru following the tightening of migration controls, will arrive in Chile early Sunday morning, Chilean Foreign Minister Alberto van Klaveren stated.
Last week, authorities in Lima declared a state of emergency at the country’s borders, deploying troops to reinforce checkpoints and block undocumented workers from crossing over from Chile. “The plane has just taken off… to Caracas,” Chilean government delegate Ricardo Sanzana told reporters in the city of Arica, 2,000 kilometers north of Santiago.
The plane — belonging to a private airline — had arrived from Caracas on Friday and is financed by the Venezuelan government of President Nicolas Maduro.“There is a firm determination of the government of President Gabriel Boric to take charge of migration in all its senses, in an orderly and safe manner,” Sanzana added.
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