The Vice Minister for Multilateral Issues of Venezuela, Rubén Molina, condemned in the United Nations (UN) the political use and commodification of Venezuelan migration.
“Venezuela, with its peace diplomacy, condemns the criminalization of its migrants and their families,” Molina said.
“We reject, in this order, any approach that claims to treat migration as a business,” he said at the UN Migration Review Forum.
The diplomat called on “those international agencies and organizations, governments and organizations that lend themselves to political instrumentalization, to account for their actions.”
“It is intolerable and immoral that they try to use humanitarian arguments to profit from human suffering,” he added.
He recalled that for decades Venezuela has received millions of migrants, who achieved economic prosperity in the country, as well as all the necessary social care.
“In our country, millions of brothers of other nationalities are subjects with full rights, without discrimination of any kind,” emphasized the Venezuelan diplomat.
In this regard, he pointed out that – at no time – Venezuela received financial resources to attend to the millions of people who migrated.
For this reason, he questioned the use of the situation of Venezuelan migrants for political propaganda or begging for financial resources.
Likewise, he rejected that they lend themselves to the aggression suffered by Venezuela, through the coercive sanctions imposed by the United States.
After acknowledging that in recent years there has been an increase in the migratory flow of the country, he said that “it is an atypical migratory process, induced and of an economic nature.”
He pointed out that it is “the direct result of a policy of aggression that, based on the criminal imposition of 502 coercive measures, has sought to destabilize social peace, with the aim of overthrowing the constitutional government,” he asserted.
On the other hand, he stressed his firm rejection of the criminalization and xenophobia that has been promoted against Venezuelan migrants, which have only ended in unfortunate events.
Actions against xenophobia
It is not the first time that Venezuela has raised its voice against xenophobia towards fellow citizens.
The National Assembly decided create a special office to investigate and care for victims of xenophobic violence against Venezuelans in any country.
One of the countries where xenophobia against Venezuelans has been registered the most is Chile.
Peru follows, with the most recent case of the child Jhoangel Zambrano11 years old, who received a brutal beating in a school, being seriously injured.
And Colombia, where the mayor of Bogotá, Claudia López, has described the Venezuelans of criminals.
