Venezuelan migrants hold signs that read "We are Venezuelans looking for help and a job, God bless you" at the border with Ecuador, in Tumbes, Peru, Aug. 24, 2018.
Reuters: Venezuelan leaders say migration flows are 'normal'
CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela’s government said on Monday migratory patterns out of the OPEC nation are “normal” and that the situation was being exaggerated to justify an intervention by foreign powers.
The United Nation’s migration agency said last month the exodus of citizens out of Venezuela, which is suffering a hyperflationary economic collapse, is nearing a “crisis moment” comparable to the situation of refugees in the Mediterranean.
“There has been an intent to convert a normal migratory flow into a humanitarian crisis in order to justify an international intervention in Venezuela,” Vice President Delcy Rodriguez told a news conference. “We will not allow it.”
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Update #1: Venezuela Vice-President: Migration levels are normal (BBC)
Update #2: Venezuela government denies facing migration crisis (Al Jazeera)
WNU Editor: Nothing to see here. Move on.
