The UN provides for 5.3 million Venezuelan refugees and migrants by the end of 2019 | World

Launched in Geneva by the United Nations, the Regional Plan of Assistance to Refugees and Migrants of Venezuela (RMRP) is "the first in the Americas," said the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees ( UNHCR) and the International Organization for Refugee Protection. Migration (IOM) in a joint declaration.

According to UN agencies, about three million Venezuelans live abroad, of which at least 2.3 million have left Venezuela since 2015. Most of them have made in Colombia and Peru.

"According to government figures, it is estimated that there will be 5.3 million Venezuelan refugees and migrants by the end of December 2019," said the government. UN in its regional response plan.

Although Venezuelans have left the country for several years, these population movements increased in 2017 and their magnitude has accelerated further in 2018, according to the UN.

According to estimates by UNHCR and IOM, about 5,500 people left the country each day in 2018.

"We are facing a humanitarian earthquake," said the Special Envoy United Nations Refugees and Venezuelan Migrants, Eduardo Stein, at a press conference.

"The peak of departures was reached" in mid-August, while the number of Venezuelans who left the country exceeded 18,000 per day. Today, he has fallen to less than 5,000 a day, "he added.

The UN request for funding is based on the badumption that the current situation will continue.

United Nations calls for $ 738 million to help 2.7 million people (2.2 million Venezuelans and 500,000 people in host communities) in 16 countries

The European Commission announced Tuesday that 39, she would allocate 20 million euros (22.8 million US dollars) to the service of Venezuelan migrants.

"I have noted the anguish and suffering of many Venezuelans, who have were forced to flee their homes because of the crisis, "said European Commissioner for Humanitarian Aid, Christos Stylianides, in a statement.

The United Nations considers that the exodus of Venezuelans fleeing a disastrous economic situation is the biggest displacement population in the recent history of Latin America.