Boric advocates for migrant quotas in the region to address the Venezuelan crisis

The Chilean President Gabriel Boric advocated on Monday for Latin American solidarity in the face of immigration and for establishing quotas among the countries of the region to receive immigrants, especially those from Venezuela.

borikwho at the age of 36 is since Friday the youngest president in the history of Chilealso referred to the organizations that unite the countries of the region and believed that they should stop creating groups based on the leaders of the day in his first meeting with the international press.

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The president came to power in the midst of a complex local and international scenario that includes uncontrolled migration on the northern border, where a state of exception is in force that resulted in the prominent center-right government ordering the military to help control dozens of illegal border crossings where almost Undocumented foreigners enter daily, which has caused protests. Boric said that he will extend the state of emergency.

asked about the problem, He believed that the burden derived from the migratory crisis, especially the Venezuelan one, “cannot fall on one or a group of countries, but we have to express Latin American solidarity and there all the countries of the region, Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay, Bolivia, have a role to play”.

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“We have to discuss this multilaterally, but I think it is something that everyone will have won”he added.

Regarding regional associations, he believed that “we must stop creating organizations based on the ideological affinities of the leaders of the day,” referring to the Forum for the Progress of South America (PROSUR), promoted by the center-right former president Sebastián Piñera and Iván Duque, from Colombia. “I think they have shown that they are not useful to unite us and to advance integration,” he said.

In addition, he emphasized that “it is necessary and important for Latin America to once again have a voice in the world, which we have been losing for a long time.”

Boric assumed command of the country on Friday for the period 2022-2026 and his political coalition, formed by the leftist Broad Front and the Communist Party, is small in Congress, with 24% of deputies and only 10% of senators.

One of the first challenges he will face in Parliament is the approval of a tax reform to collect 5% of the Gross Domestic Product in four years to fulfill several of his government’s promises, including gradually raising the minimum wage of 350,000 ( 430 dollars) to 500,000 ($620), create 500,000 female jobs and modify the health, pension and education systems, among other goals.

“Very complicated times are going to come… we are going to live in challenging and tremendously complex times,” are phrases that the president has repeated in recent days.

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Source: Elcomercio

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