Vice-minister Ramón Gordils welcomes the first group of Venezuelans repatriated this Saturday from Ecuador

The Vice-minister of Economic Cooperation of the People’s Power Ministry for Foreign Relations, Ramón Gordils, welcomed the first group of nationals who returned to the country from Ecuador through the Plan Vuelta a la Patria. “On behalf of the Bolivarian Government, Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza and the Venezuelan people, we are proud to welcome you on a day like this when we are close to the eve of the end of the year, fulfilling the dream of reuniting you with your families”, said the Vice-minister. The flight of the airline Conviasa that arrived at the International Airport of Maiquetía Simón Bolívar at approximately 4:30pm, brought with it the first 100 from the whole group of 300 Venezuelans who voluntarily, and after complying with the protocols for their repatriation, will arrive on Saturday in Venezuela. After disembarking from the plane, the nationals were received with the glorious notes of the National Anthem and by a multidisciplinary team made up of members of the Foreign Ministry, the Movement Somos Venezuela, which was in charge of guiding the returnees for their subsequent transfer in the units of the Integral System of Surface Transportation (Sitssa) that will take them to their regions of origin. In his speech, Gordils asked the repatriated Venezuelans to become multipliers of the experiences that they lived outside of their country, so they “illustrate to other nationals and to tell them that there is no better place than the Homeland”. The Venezuelan official stressed that regardless of the reasons that led hundreds of Venezuelans to migrate from their country, he did not understand the abuse, xenophobia and exploitation to which they were subjected, because “Venezuela has always been a host country for migrants, and has also extended a helping hand to all those who needed it at any time”. According to Gordils, the fact that the Caribbean nation continues to be a friendly place for migrants, gives it a “moral superiority” due to the treatment and fraternal embrace that the Venezuelan and the Bolivarian government extends to outsiders.