Anti-Chavistas rejected this Tuesday the identity control of foreigners that the Peruvian immigration authority announced that it will do in the entry to the National Stadium of Limewhere the soccer teams of Venezuela and Peruas part of the South American qualifiers for the 2026 World Cup.
The opposition party Sell Venezuela expressed on X (formerly Twitter) that “nothing justifies”this operation that, according to Migrations Peruwill be carried out together with the National Police (PNP) of this Andean nation, which had announced shortly before that it was going to establish this type of immigration controls and that 1,900 agents will guard the stadium.
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“We condemn any act of discrimination and intimidation against our Venezuelan brothers in Peru and where they are located, even more so if it is directed from official institutions“said the anti-Chavista formation, led by the candidate of the majority sector of the opposition for the 2024 presidential elections, Maria Corina Machadowho shared this message on X.
On the same social network, the former mayor David Smolansky described the ad as xenophobic and intimidating, which “puts many at risk migrants who have not obtained their documentation due to failures of the Peruvian system itself”.
For his part, the anti-Chavista Eduardo Battistini said “Using a sporting event that awakens the passion of the more than 1.2 million Venezuelans in Lima to intimidate, stigmatize and treat these migrants as criminals is “a crime.”“, which – he pointed out – “ought” give “shame” to the Peruvian authorities.
In the opinion of the opponent, the xenophobia “became a state policy” in Peru, a country where 1.54 million Venezuelans live, the majority in Limewhich makes it the second with the most migrants in the Caribbean nation, after Colombia.
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The announcement by Migrations Peru has also been rejected by the ruling party, with reactions such as that of the Chavista leader Pedro Infantefirst vice president of the National Assembly (AN, Parliament).
The Peruvian president, Dina Boluartedeclared this Tuesday that “hundreds of Venezuelans“are voluntarily leaving the Andean country through the border with Ecuadorafter the deadline to regularize your immigration status has expired on November 10.
The Migration Office reported on that date that more than 90% of the foreigners who applied for the regularization process were Venezuelans.
