From Boyacá, and very indignant, the Venezuelan migrants reacted to the latest statements by the Vice President and Foreign Minister Marta Lucía Ramírez, who criticized that Colombia has had to receive mostly low-skilled migrants, adding that the country does not have the capacity to continue receiving Venezuelans.
He reacted to this Anny Uribe, Venezuelan lawyer, leader of the Simón Bolívar Foundation of Tunja (Boyacá), which has supported formalization work for Venezuelan migrants, hand in hand with Migración Colombia and other government entities and NGOs.
“We feel very offended. And although we recognize that a large part of our population comes from socioeconomically vulnerable sectors, we consider that it is totally unfortunate and inappropriate comment of the Vice President and Chancellor, especially when Colombia has not allowed us, those of us who have had the opportunity to become professional in our country, to homologate titles fairly. His management has not allowed Venezuelan migrants to practice their profession. It is not that there is a less qualified population, it is that it is the population that is least treated with dignity. Although the president, Iván Duque, opens the doors to migrants, looking for solutions, the vice president does the opposite,” explained Uribe.
He took the opportunity to request that the procedures be faster to validate Lois titles of Venezuelan professionals: “tWe have a huge census of professionals from all branches in Boyacá, and throughout Colombia, but they are not allowed to work with dignity. We have multilingual people, a thick mass of professionals, who have not had access to demonstrate their skills and abilities; she, the vice president, should evaluate what she has done for migration. We have engineers with enormous academic preparation, and when they apply for a job, they are told that they are overqualified.”
You have to know more on the ground what is happening with migration, our difficulties and the real challenges of the two countries“the vice president you must get off that cloud where you are and get ‘one to one’ with many of our migrants professionals, and there if to measure who has more or less qualification”, concluded Uribe.
