Maduro proposes credits to returned migrants with an initial fund of 10 million dollars

Nicolás Maduro proposed on Monday, February 3, create a credit system aimed at migrants who return to Venezuela, with an initial fund of 10 million dollars.

The proposal was made during the installation of the XII Extraordinary Virtual Summit with the countries of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA), in which it prioritized the issue of migration.

By Thenational

The official leader, who swore to the position of President of Venezuela after his questioned re -election, mentioned the proposal of the Bank of the Alba to establish a credits for the productive reintegration of entrepreneurial migrants.

«A rotary fund that would allow us to attend, in part, this situation and turn the return of a good part of our brothers and sisters (…), to turn it into an opportunity to generate economic, beneficial activity, for our country,» said Maduro.

On the other hand, he assured that a topic that is very on the table is also raised, which is the dismantling of criminal organizations for human trafficking, something that – he said – proposed to the United States in recent conversations, without specifying which.

«We have contributed many new elements of our investigations on the functioning of criminal organizations for human trafficking,» he said without giving more details about it.

In addition, he said that he aspires to «raise this requirement to governments that have to do with the issue» and coordinate with Venezuelan security agencies «to dismantle, capture and destroy» these organizations of «human trafficking» That, he said, in Venezuela they are «all linked» to the opposition.

The Chavista leader reiterated that, due to the «criminal sanctions that were applied against the economy of Venezuela,» almost 2,500,000 «of Venezuelans emigrated, of which, he added,» 1,250,000 have returned «, without specifying the period.

According to the Integencial Coordination Platform for refugees and migrants (R4V) -which leads the United Nations Agency for Refugees (UNHCR) and the International Organization for Migration (IIM) -, about 7.89 million Venezuelans left their country due to the economic crisis of recent years.