Mike Pompeo will travel to Cucuta to learn about the situation of Venezuelan migrants

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will visit this Sunday in the Colombian city of Cúcuta, on the border with Venezuela, to badess the border challenges and to know the support given to Venezuelan refugees, in the middle of a tour in different countries of the region.

Pompeo will be accompanied by the Colombian President Iván Duque and it is expected that both visit the Simón Bolívar and Tienditas bridges, visit the shelters that host Venezuelan immigrants and discover the warehouses where the humanitarian aid is stored, as reported by the chain NCR.

The head of the American diplomacy will arrive in Colombia after spending Saturday in Peru, where he met with President Martin Vizcarra precisely of the crisis in Venezuela, which caused the arrival of some 730,000 Venezuelan migrants in Peru and tested their ability to receive them.

Pompeo congratulated Peru for hosting so many VenezuelansBut he was upset when a reporter asked him whether this attitude did not contrast with President Donald Trump's decision to build a wall to prevent the arrival of Central American migrants in search of money. ;a better life.

"Our goal is to allow people to stay in their home countries, it's the wish of President Trump", responded Pompeo during a press conference with Peruvian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Néstor Popolizio.

"We want to create conditions in these countries so that they can stay in their own countries and do not need to migrate to another place ", he added.

Pompeo reiterated Washington's support, "in this very difficult transition period, "said Juan Guaidó, an opponent that more than 50 countries recognize as the responsible leader of Venezuela.

Popolizio baderted that the crisis in Venezuela, now "It's not even regional, it's a global problem" and said that the Lima group, at its meeting in Santiago on Monday, would discuss new measures to reinforce the isolation of Nicolás Maduro 's government.

Peru was the third leg of its South American tour that started Friday in Chile, and which will take him to Cucuta on Sunday, on the border with Venezuela.

In addition to these visits in person, Pompeo spoke on Saturday by telephone about the Venezuelan crisis to the Brazilian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ernesto Araújo, whose country has not been included in this tour, informed a spokesman for the state department.

"They promised to continue to work together to address the political, economic and humanitarian crisis in Venezuela and its effects on its neighbors, as well as the need for external actors, including Cuba, Russia and the United States. China, stop supporting Nicolás Maduro.said spokesman Morgan Ortagus.

Peru was the promoter of the Lima group, created in 2017 by a dozen American countries in search of a peaceful solution to the crisis in Venezuela. Now he has 14 members. In addition, he was one of the first nations to recognize Guaidó when he proclaimed himself acting president on January 23.

More than 3 million VenezuelansAbout 10% of the population now lives outside their country. The projection of the United Nations is that at the end of 2019, they add 5.3 million, in the greatest humanitarian crisis in Latin America in times of peace.

Peru expects that by the end of April the country will have nearly 800,000 Venezuelans and the million barrier will be overcome in a few months if the current flow is maintained.

It is the second country to have received more Venezuelans, after Colombia (1.2 million), which weighed heavily on Peruvian public services.

With information from AFP and EFE