Deandra Shideler

Policy Paper
Although Peru supports Venezuela, they believe supplies and medical
attention should go to host countries instead of Venezuela while Nicolás Maduro
i​s president.

Venezuela’s economy has been failing due to corruption in the

government, prices rising, shortage in oil and the Venezuelan’s GDP has fallen in
the past five years (O'Neil). This led to a humanitarian crisis meaning, people
weren’t getting the food, supplies, and medical attention they need. There have
been outbreaks of diseases like tuberculosis, diphtheria, and Chagas disease
(O'Neil). The Venezuelans had to leave their country and go to one in the same
region, a country that supports them, like Peru. Since March over 700,000
Venezuelan refugees have come to Peru and about 161,000 have applied for
asylum (Boyanton). The asylum process in Peru is underdeveloped because they
didn’t have many refugees until the Venezuela crisis. There are about 400
requests a day for asylum in Lima and the registration system malfunctions often
(Boyanton). Disregarding the problems in his country president Nicolás Maduro
continues to not take action in the refugee crisis. While Juan Guaido has taken
steps to help it and has plans to improve the crisis (Janetsky).

Peru believes the host countries should get the extra support instead of
Venezuela because the host countries are taking in the refugees and giving them
their countries resources like homes, medical care, jobs, food, and water. If
Maduro got extra resources he would not use them to help the refugee crisis. But
if Guaido was in power he could take action towards ending the refugee crisis
(Janetsky). Peru welcomes refugees but you have to disclose your full criminal
record and then they can apply for a temporary residence pass. This will let them
live and work in Peru for a year while the migrate can get processed to obtain a
humanitarian visa. A humanitarian visa allows the refugee to live in Peru for a
very small cost, $5 minimum (Dupraz-Dobias).
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