Peru plans to beef up security at its border with Ecuador to prevent illegal imm...
FILE PHOTO: Venezuelan migrants wait outside the Ecuadorian-Peruvian border service center, to process their documents and be able to continue their journey, on the outskirts of Tumbes, Peru June 15, 2019. REUTERS/Carlos Garcia Rawlins
More than 850,000 Venezuelans have fled their homeland for Peru in recent years, part of a mass exodus from the Caribbean nation as it faces a crippling economic crisis. “The entry of Venezuelan migrants to our country has dropped dramatically and today it’s 90% less than what we saw in June,” Foreign Minister Nestor Popolizio told journalists.
“We’re engaged in a very direct coordination ... to ensure more protection all along our border and to avoid illegal entries,” Popolizio said.
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