Shipwreck of Venezuelans in the Caribbean: 21 people still missing

Around 21 Venezuelans they are still missing in the Caribbean Sea after the wreck of the boat where they went aboard to Trinidad and Tobago on Wednesday night. Only four people were saved.

In this regard, the spokesman of the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR), Babar Baloch, warned about the existence of illegal shipping routes in the area of ​​the incident. "This fact illustrates the dangers of irregular departures people trying to move from one country to another, "he said.

"If there are no legal channels, there will be more and more people taking more dangerous routes, "said Baloch of Geneva, after remembering that what happened was not the first incident of this type occurred in the Caribbean.

Baloch recalled that in January of last year, another boat with Venezuelans trying to reach the island of Curacao He was shipwrecked in his thirties number of pbadengers on board of which only 16 could be saved.

Although the reasons for Venezuelans' travels have not been clarified, the UNHCR official pointed out that between 40,000 and 60,000 Venezuelans they emigrated Trinidad and Tobago, a close island country, due to Venezuela's economic and political crisis.

The figure represents a small part of more than 3.7 million people who left the oil country in recent years.