More than 28,000 Venezuelans returned to the country on the Plan Vuelta a la Patria.

Caracas, April 10 (EFE) .- The Venezuelan government confirmed this week that 28,521 Venezuelans from 21 countries have returned to the country since 2018 after the final repatriation of the so-called “Plan Vuelta a la Patria” to 247 citizens. Peru this weekend.

“The number of Venezuelans using the Plan Vuelta a la Patria is 28,521 passengers from 21 countries, with 165 flights and sea transfers,” the Venezuelan Foreign Ministry said on Twitter.

In another post, he indicated that 247 Venezuelans had arrived in the country from Peru on the new day of the program.

On March 22, the agency announced the launch of a new phase of the Plan Vuelta a la Patria, which began in September 2018 to facilitate the return of xenophobia victims to host countries.

The Regional Interagency Coordination Platform for Refugees and Migrants from Venezuela (R4V) estimates that 6,041,690 people have left the country due to the crisis of recent years.

This platform indicates that 4,992,215 of this total number of migrants live in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro promised on February 3 that trips to the government plan would be tripled from March.

“During the months of March we are going to enter a new phase of the Vuelta a la Patria plan, we are going to increase the number of flights to bring in Venezuelans who are already enrolled in the plan,” he said in the act. Broadcast by Venezuelan state television (VTV).

Maduro assured that Venezuelans left the country in search of a “better economic opportunity”, but there was “a lot of discrimination, a lot of xenophobia that was sown against Venezuela.”