Chile: Tents of Venezuelans Destroyed During Protest Against Migration and Crime in Iquique

Hundreds of people demonstrated this Sunday in the city of Iquique against illegal migration in the north of Chile, where there has been a serious migration and insecurity crisis for months.

Shouting “Enough” and waving flags of Chile, the demonstrators marched through the center of this coastal city, where most of the migrants arrive who cross daily through illegal steps on the border with Bolivia.

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The march, to which some migrants joined, It comes days after four Venezuelans attacked a policeman in Iquique who was checking them out.

#IQUIQUE | THIS IS WHY they destroy the tents and belongings of boys and girls with the presence and complicity of @Carabdechile
Via @radiopaulina pic.twitter.com/8PRHv79kqG

— PENSAPRENSA 301.3 thousand Followers (@ThinkPrensa) January 30, 2022

“In recent times we have seen how our city has changed. We have always been with foreigners, with Peruvians and Bolivians, but this has gone beyond all limits and there is terrible crime,” protester Patricia Pizarro told Efe.

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For this Monday there is a call to paralyze activities in Iquique, including the port and to which the truckers have joined, who also threaten to block the entrance and exit of the city.

???? NOW | A foreign person is attacked by a protester. #Iquique @Cooperative pic.twitter.com/rIyNDcLCEk

– Bastian Fuentes Avila (@BastianFuentesA) January 30, 2022

The prosecutor of Tarapacá, the region to which Iquique belongs, Raúl Arancibia, assured this week that homicides increased by 183% in one year and that “extremely violent” criminal gangs have emerged, with methods and crimes that had not been seen before. in the north of the country.

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“People are tired of crime and the excessive and uncontrolled arrival of migrants, there are assaults everywhere, you can’t live like this”, the protester Carolina Campos told Efe.

???? NOW | Mass demonstration in Iquique, Tarapacá region, due to acts of violence recorded in recent weeks. pic.twitter.com/aq7l48Xlk4

– BioBioChile (@biobio) January 30, 2022

Neither the pandemic nor the social crisis that lasted for more than a year in 2019 have discouraged the desire to migrate to Chile, one of the most attractive countries in Latin America due to its political and economic stability.

After a spike in arrivals in February last year, the crisis worsened in October, with hundreds of foreigners, mainly Venezuelans, wandering through different locations in the north of the country, forcing the Chilean government to announce the construction of several shelters to serve the crisis.

The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) warned last December that nearly 500 Venezuelan refugees and migrants, including children, cross daily through irregular border crossings between Bolivia and Chile and arrive in the country “after several days without eating, with dehydration. , hypothermia and altitude sickness.

So far this year, at least two people have died trying to cross the border and at least 23 since the massive flow began in February 2021. In Chile there are 1.4 million migrants, which is equivalent to more than 7% of the population, and Venezuelans are the most numerous, followed by Peruvians, Haitians and Colombians.

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Source: Elcomercio

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