This Friday, another 147 Venezuelans return to our country as part of the Vuelta a la Patria program, an initiative of President Nicolás Maduro, which provided the means for a new group of nationals, including 111 Warao indigenous people, to travel from the Roraima state in the Federative Republic of Brazil to venezuelan territory.
The operation is being coordinated from the city of Boa Vista between the Foreign Ministry of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, the Bolivarian National Armed Forces (FANB), the Bolivar State Governor and Brazilian authorities. The transport is carried out on four buses that will go to Pacaraima in Brazil, and then continue to the city of Puerto Ordaz, where local authorities will manage the attentions and the transfer of citizens to the cities of origin.
Testimonies offered by venezuelans José Hernández, José Martínez and Nicolás Martínez to the venezuelan diplomatic authorities report mistreatment form the personnel that manages the shelters, from the police authorities and the Brazilian army. “We could not leave the coat to get air, go out to the sidewalk in front, we were asphyxiated,” Martinez said. “We could not talk because they kicked us to the ground”, Hernandez said.
According to the experiences reported by the compatriots, the reality is very different from what they expected, the alternatives were “living in the street, in a square” or under a regime applied in the coats in which respect for humanity is gone.
This Thursday another group of 185 venezuelans also returned to Venezuela from Brazil under the protection of the Vuelta a la Patria program, in which 89 nationals returned from the Republic of Peru, on August 28. Embassy