Posted on 06/07/2019 5:51:26 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Venezuela has hit a worrying milestone. The United Nations says more than 4 million refugees and migrants have left the country, which is suffering from political chaos, food shortages and hyperinflation.
The U.N. has called this exodus the "largest in the recently history of Latin American and the Caribbean."
"The pace of the outflow from Venezuela has been staggering," the U.N.'s refugee agency UNHCR and the International Organization for Migration said in a joint statement.
The numbers make it clear that the pace is escalating. The U.N. says one million people have left since November 2018. And the high rate of departure is a recent development: at the end of 2015, the U.N. says there were about 695,000 migrants and refugees from Venezuela. Most of the people who have left Venezuela remain in Latin America. Colombia is hosting the largest number of them, with 1.3 million, and Peru is the next-largest, with some 768,000. Chile, Ecuador, Brazil and Argentina all are hosting more than 100,000, the U.N. says...
"These alarming figures highlight the urgent need to support host communities in the receiving countries," Eduardo Stein, joint UNHCR-IOM Special Representative for Venezuelan refugees and migrants, said in a statement. "Latin American and Caribbean countries are doing their part to respond to this unprecedented crisis but they cannot be expected to continue doing it without international help."
In November, eight countries from the region met in Quito and signed an agreement to work together to work together on a humanitarian response to the refugee and migrant influx.
or they’ve been eaten
Large numbers probably came here where they will continue to vote for the very policies that ran them away.
We should help repopulate Venezuela with a Nationwide AD Campaign to get Proud Progressive Millennials to MOVE to Venezuela and enjoy Utopia. Hollywood Should lead the Pack!
Empty our jails of the Spanish speakers and send them there. Give them a $1k stripend.
“U.N. Says More Than 4 Million People Have Left Venezuela”
And they are probably all here now courtesy of democrats. The same ones who voted for Maduro and the prick before him Chavez.
FMCDH(BITS)
The professional collectivists stop the brain drain with walls and machine guns. These fools can’t even do tyranny right!
they’ll figure it out when they realize the #1 job in Venezuela is subsistence farming.
Buy them a 400 dollar AR-15 apiece and send them back.
One good bullit, and not one of those leftists has the courage after seeing all the carnage socialism has wrought. Shame on you bastards....
Socialists fail miserably and scatter to screw somewhere else up.
So, basically, Socialism, coupled with a corrupt government, WORKS? *SNORT*
Seriously? My hear goes out to these dopes. I complain about Mother Government in America ALL DAY LONG, but that dang ‘Constitution’ of ours and our system of Government COULD be replicated if the REST of the world had a friggin’ CLUE!
Well, maybe not. Not EVERY country has an Adams, a Jefferson, a Franklin, et al.
We. Are. Blessed. Don’t EVER forget that and don’t EVER stop fighting for it!
So you millenial socialists, if you hate those capitalist corporations with white hot fury...
Why would you want to turn the US into a single corporation? Which is what Socialism really is about.
Every leftist in America who wants socialism should move there!
Caracas has a population of like 22-23 million alone
Its capital city of Caracas is situated in the north of the country along the Guaire River. It has a population of almost two million in the city, increasing to 2.9 million for the Caracas metropolitan area. In addition to being the economic and cultural center of Venezuela, Caracas is known for being one of most important cultural and industrial cities in Latin America, as well as a key tourist destination. However, the city is also known for having one of the highest murder rates in the world, estimated at 119 homicides per 100,000 residents.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.