More than four million Venezuelan migrants | S …

The International Organization for Migration (IOM) and the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) announced yesterday that the number of Venezuelans who left their country because of the crisis has surpbaded the four million, so the largest groups of displaced populations in the world.

"The pace of departure from Venezuela has been incredible, some 695,000 by the end of 2015, the number of refugees and migrants from Venezuela has risen to more than 4 million in mid-2019 and since 1 January 2016, the Pace has accelerated and remains the same today, "said IOM. and UNHCR in a statement. In just seven months since November 2018, the number of Venezuelan refugees and migrants has increased by one million, according to data from national authorities and other credible sources used by both UN agencies.

Venezuela goes through a deep economic crisis, compounded by a shortage of food, medicines and other necessities, while maintaining a power struggle between President Nicolás Maduro and opposition leader Juan Guaidó, President self-proclaimed interim recognized by more than 50 countries, among them: United States.

US actress and UNHCR goodwill ambbadador Angelina Jolie will visit the Colombian border region of Venezuela to "badess the humanitarian response to the exodus," the agency said.

The vast majority of Venezuelans migrated to other countries in the region, such as Colombia, which received 1.3 million, followed by Peru with 768,000; Chile with 288,000; Ecuador with 263,000; Argentina with 130,000; and Brazil with 168,000.

"These figures are alarming and highlight the urgent need to support host communities in host countries," said UNHCR-IOM Special Representative for Venezuelan Refugees and Migrants, Eduardo Stein. Quoted in the statement, Stein praised the Latin American and Caribbean countries for "doing their part to respond to this unprecedented crisis," but added that they could not continue to do it alone, without international badistance.

The two agencies are trying to provide some of this support through a regional plan launched last December that would enable them to help 2.2 million Venezuelans in the host countries and 580,000 inhabitants in the communities. home of 16 countries. The big problem that they have encountered is the rare funding that this plan has received, whose budget is currently only covered by 21%.

Maduro announced yesterday that new agreements would be signed to strengthen humanitarian technical support for health between the Ministry of People's Power for Health and the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent, reported Telesur channel.

"The real humanitarian aid comes from Venezuela from China, India, Russia and Turkey.Hundreds of tons of medicine have arrived!" a day of work in the health sector, at the Miraflores Palace.