Head of State: More than a million Venezuelans have returned to the country for Vuelta a la Patria

Published at: 01/07/2024 08:55 PM

On the night of this Monday, July 1st, the head of state, Nicolás Maduro, assured that “between 2013 and 2023, 2.5 million people left Venezuela as economic migrants and between 2020 and 2023, 1.2 million have returned, representing half of them.”

The National President announced the expansion of the Great Mission Back to the Fatherland, converted into a comprehensive plan to ensure the return of Venezuelans abroad and to address their problems faced in different nations.

“We want to ensure that the vast majority of those who haven't returned come here, with their family, with their friends,” he said.

“Those of us here are working to prepare with funding plans, sports plans, culture plans, so that they are shaped as a community, regularizing their roles, giving them support with lawyers to defend them from abuse (...) Xenophobia (...) Do you remember how Julio Borges said? That Venezuelans are a plague, that is spreading across the continent. The Great Mission back to the Homeland has started and we are going to prepare conditions so that in a medium-term period their conditions will be re-established,” he said.

Of the total number of Venezuelans who have returned to the country, at least 500,000 have been supported by the revolutionary government in Rio.

Mazo News Team