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Venezuelan Tourists
Don’t Want To Return
To Their Country

ACCORDING to the Curacao Minister of Justice, “Some Venezuelans, who ment, resulting in a lot of negative consequences.
enter our country, do not
Nelson Navarro, he has observed that there is an in- want to return and choose to This fear has arisen for Venezuelan asylum seekers
crease in the number of Venezuelans who come to the stay illegally on the island. coming with boats to the Caribbean in general and to
island on vacation, but are not traveling back to their This is not acceptable and is Curaçao in particular. That fear has not materialized,
country. The minister stresses that there is currently therefore strictly monitored by stressed the minister. At least, not according to the
no increase in the migratory flow to the island because Coast Guard. They have been patrolling the coast and
of the precarious situation in Venezuela. the police,” keeping a watchful eye on these immigrants.

“Hard figures are not there, said Navarro. Aruba has been experiencing a similar problem, since
but we always address the we also have many Venezuelan coming to our country
number of illegal immigrants Undocumented migrants are always arrested and and not leaving. The situation is alarming since usu-
detained pending deportation, which is the normal ally people that illegally remain in a country tend to
on the island,” procedure used on the island. do undeclared work which is something known for
having negative consequences on a country.
said the minister during a press conference.
We admire how Curacao is handling this
As is already known, Venezuela is in a crisis. There situation and commend them for their ef-
forts on this matter.
is a shortage of funds and a shortage of many

consumer goods, such as food and medicine, and

the poor economic situation has led to an unfa-

vorable business en- viron-

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