Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro warned Chilean President-elect José Antonio Kast on Monday to avoid “threatening” Venezuelan migrants in his country. Migration and security were central themes of the presidential campaign … elected representative of Chile.
“Mr. Kast, you can be a follower of Hitler and be educated in Hitler’s values. You may be a recognized and convicted pinochetist, but be careful, that doesn’t matter to a Venezuelan. Venezuelans are respected. Be careful. Listen to me carefully. “Anyone who disturbs Venezuela shuts up and you can shut up quickly,” he said during his show on state channel ‘VTV’.
The leader criticized the fact that Venezuelan migration is “once again betrayed, threatened in Chile” and defended that the citizens of this country are “good people, who work, who produce, who contribute to Chile, who pay their taxes in Chile.”
“Mr. Kast, be careful,” Maduro warned, after accusing the Venezuelan opposition:Leopoldo Lopez And Edmundo Gonzalez— to argue that the leader of the Republican Party of Chile “threatens Venezuelan immigration, imposes deadlines and warns that if they do not comply, he will arrest them, confiscate their cars, their homes and their bank accounts, and deport them as if they were criminals.”
Maduro defended that “Venezuelan migration has rights that the Chilean Constitution must guarantee”, although he invited his Chilean citizens to return to Venezuela: “With great respect I say this to Venezuelan migrants, regardless of the region they come from, beyond the time they spent there, beyond ideologies or political positions (…) return to the homeland (…) of opportunities and perpetual happiness.
In this sense, he assured that “no one will persecute us here” and announced that he had ordered the creation of a “special plan” to facilitate the return to Venezuela of anyone who wishes it. “Legal, diplomatic and logistical support to the entire Venezuelan community in Chile and to all those who wish to return will benefit from our determined support,” he explained.
Kast, who beat the left-wing candidate this Sunday, Jeannette Jarawith nearly 60% of the votes, will become the first declared supporter of the general at the beginning of March Augusto Pinochet coming to power after the end of the dictatorship, more than thirty years ago.
The president-elect, who had slightly moderated his tone before the second round of elections, focused his speech on the expulsion of irregular migrants, in particular a plan called “Border Shield » with which he advocates the installation of walls at the border, the use of facial recognition drones and the sanctioning of employers who hire undocumented immigrants.
According to information from last year from the National Institute of Statistics of Chile, in 2023 they will reside in this country. 252,591 Undocumented Venezuelans, representing the 75% of the foreign population in an irregular situation.
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