The exodus of Venezuelans to the rest of the countries of the Americas can reach four million people by the end of this year, the director of the Program for the Andean Region, North America and the Caribbean of the Center for Justice and Law warned in Lima on Tuesday. International (Cejil), Francisco Quintana.

The lawyer assured in an interview to EFE that the estimations that his institution handles, in function to the data collected by more than 70 organizations of the civil society, indicate that at present three million Venezuelans have fled their country, unlike the 2 , 3 million estimated by the United Nations.

"In the last year, 1.5 million people left Venezuela, this is unprecedented anywhere in the world, in Syria six million people left in a period of four or five years." In Myanmar, one million Rohingyas left the country. country, but in almost ten years, "said the director.

The figures estimated by Cejil along with other organizations such as the Jesuit Refugee Service indicate that there are currently two million Venezuelans in Colombia, half a million in Peru, another half million in Ecuador, 120,000 in Argentina and some 30,000 in the Dominican Republic.

According to official figures offered a week ago at the headquarters of the Andean Community, the Colombian authorities indicated that they currently receive almost one million Venezuelans, Peru admits more than 430,000 and Ecuador about 200,000.

"I do not know why Brazil continues to handle figures of 70,000 people who have not moved in three months," said Quintana, who participates in Lima at the international conference on trafficking in persons and other forms of slavery in Latin America, organized by the Institute of Democracy and Human Rights of the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru (Idehpucp).

"We are talking about 12% of the population of Venezuela could be out of the country this year, with the measures that President Nicolás Maduro has taken, we believe that the flow of emigrants will continue at the pace we have seen so far" .

Mature and Diosdado Cabello affirms

Nicolás Maduro, president of the Republic, said Monday, September 10, that the millions of Venezuelans who have decided to emigrate from the country thanks to the serious economic crisis that the nation is going through, did it "with a lot of money in their pockets".

"A small group of Venezuelans, with a lot of money in their pockets, went to try their luck in other countries but they ran out of money and that's why they asked me to bring them back. They stayed in the street, begging, that's why I helped them. Not one country in the world would do the same. "

Diosdado Cabello, president of the National Constituent Assembly, said Sunday that Venezuelans who have emigrated in recent years did so for "fashion" and because "it seemed to give status" to those who have family members abroad.

Cabello assured that those who emigrated were influenced by a great plan of mental destabilization of the right. He denied that there is a flight of professionals because the best have stayed in Venezuela.

"The best are here, fighting every day, working every day, not giving up for a moment."

Personal conclusions

The reality is that if there is economic crisis and humanitarian hand in hand hold the abyss, this abyss leads Venezuelans to madness some who have taken suicide as he did a friend recently, and another to migrate without having No money spent on work and needs in search of economic and family stability. As a Venezuelan I have also touched the idea of ​​leaving the country many times I am not in my best economic position I am not rich, I do not depend on a government-given lismona or mending. But if I need to have my living conditions what we call quality of life we ​​do not have it.

Hopefully as much as the Venezuelan and neighboring countries take a letter in the matter and help to get out of this problem that has been weighing on us for 20 years.

@chanchuy