Mayor of Bucaramanga alert for increased Venezuelan migration

An alert launched the mayor of Bucaramanga, Jaime Andrés Beltrán, given the increase in the arrival of Venezuelan citizens to the capital of Santander.

For this reason, a concern has been generated for the city’s ability to address this humanitarian situation.

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According to the president, In recent days the migration that arrives from the neighboring country has increased by 20%, compared to previous months, Where many of these people, including families with children, would be risking their lives on the way to the city, used as much as a final destination and passing point.

The mayor assured that Bucaramanga has already reached the limit of its resources to provide care in educationschool food and inclusion in the health system to the migrant population. “Today the municipality, with its own resources, assumes this situation, but are not unlimited,” he said.

Besides, He expressed concern about the reduction of international support, such as USAID resourceswhich in previous years allowed to relieve part of the economic burden.

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To all this, he saidthe lack of a national contingency plan is added that responds to the current situation in Venezuela, where a resurgence of the Exodus is expected.

“Today there is no contingency plan, by the President of the Republic, which instead of anticipatingto an emergency in the countryhe has worried more about taking sides and supporting the person responsible for this whole situation, ”said the president.

The local administration insisted that Bucaramanga, like other intermediate cities in the country, requires urgent support from the national government to avoid a collapse in social care against Venezuelan migration.