Maduro: migrants will return to Venezuela in less than a year if the US lifts sanctions

The president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduroassured this Monday that the migrants from this country they will return to their lands “maximum one year” Yes U.S Elevation “all sanctions”against the South American nation.

“Lift all sanctions against the economy, against Venezuelan society, and you will see that, within a year at most, this problem will end and all those migrants they return to a Venezuela with investment, growth, for a prosperous Venezuela“, expressed the head of state in his weekly program ‘With Mature +‘, broadcast on the state channel VTV.

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Maduro denounced the “rise”of a campaign to“demonize the Venezuelan migrant people”who left his country before“very difficult economic situation“for those who lived”blame for sanctions”.

He assured that, as a result of the xenophobiaa portion of Venezuelans in countries of South America He returned to his country andanother turned north“, where do you find one”campaign to say“that these migrants”They are all criminals”.

According to the Interagency Coordination Platform for Refugees and Migrants (R4V), around 7.72 million Venezuelans have left their country in recent years, a number rejected by the ruling party, which calculates the migration around 2 million, of whom returned to the country”almost a million“, Maduro said last October.

The Chavista Government assured on several occasions that migration was a product of the economic sanctions imposed by the U.Swhich reduced the Caribbean nation’s income by 99%, according to official data.

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In October, USA suspended several of its sanctions, including those related to Venezuelan oil and gas, but recently threatened to resume them if the disqualification of the candidate of the main anti-Chavista coalition for this year’s presidential elections is not lifted. Maria Corina Machadowhich prevents him from holding elected public positions until 2036.

Maduro, without naming names, said this Monday that, “in no way, never an option for imperialism and the extreme right“-as the majority sector of the Venezuelan opposition often refers to-“The popular and revolutionary option that the Bolivarian movement proposes will win”in the elections.

Source: Elcomercio

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