“The government of Venezuela needs to participate in solving the migration crisis,” said a former deputy from this country.

For more than 14 days, dozens of undocumented migrants, mostly of Venezuelan origin, have been stranded on the Linea de la Concordia, the border between Peru and Chile, trying to return to their country of origin.

Faced with this migration crisis, the executive has declared a state of emergency in the border areas Tumbes, Piura, Cajamarca, Amazonas, Loreto, Madre de Dios and Tacna.

Faced with such a situation, Oscar Pereza former Venezuelan representative living in Peru and president of the non-governmental organization Unión Venezolana, believed that the participation of the Venezuelan government was necessary to create a humanitarian corridor that would transfer migrants from the La Concordia border to Venezuela.

“A problem has been created for Peru, for the solution of which I wasn’t ready because you have to have a regional perspective on this outcome, the most important in American history and the second most important in the world,” he said.

“The participation of the Venezuelan government is necessary (…) I believe that these humanitarian flights that take off from Jorge Chavez Airport in this so-called “Plan of the Vuelta of the Fatherland” should be coordinated by the Venezuelan Ministry of Foreign Affairs and participate so that any of these flights should be fly out of Tacna and serve as a humanitarian air corridor,” he explained.

Except, Perez He said that it was also important to establish coordination with Ecuador.

“Many people say that Peru must let them pass through its territory so that they can continue on their way to their destination. Venezuela. But the question is: can this be done without the participation of Ecuador? No, because what we see in Tacna and Arica will repeat itself,” he said.

“That’s why I think that the involvement of the Venezuelan government is important, and also in the issue of regularization of immigration, legalization and apostille of some documents that are required by the immigration authorities in Peru to obtain permission from the Venezuelan Consulate in Peru, that progress can be made with some regularization processes” he added.

“Venezuela government involvement is needed”

On the other hand, with regard to the increase in criminal acts committed by Venezuelan migrants, Perez noted that two strategies could be implemented.

“One voiced yesterday by the President boluart and this, I think, is very accurate: the migratory regularization of Venezuelans who are already in Peru, which makes it possible to determine who is at home, what they do and what they bring from abroad. This allows you to separate the tares from the wheat,” he said in News RPP.

“The other thing we suggested is that they see us Venezuelans and Venezuelan-led public organizations as allies to have valuable, high-quality, intelligence information about the whereabouts and activities that small people are doing in Peru,” he added.

In this sense, he stressed that the Venezuelans can work together with the Peruvian authorities to identify foreign criminals through a dedicated telephone line.

“What better way than a Venezuelan to identify the perpetrator in his community, the one who has caused concern (…) We propose to activate the telephone line and WhatsApp through which good Venezuelans can provide quality information minter Nevertheless PNP so that these criminals are stopped before committing a crime,” he stressed.