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The president in charge of Venezuela, Juan Guaidó, announced this Wednesday that the Caribbean nation will return to the Andean Community of Nations (CAN), after being removed by the late President Hugo Chavez in 2011.
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The information was released through his account on the social network Twitter, where also He added that he had a telephone conversation with Colombian President Iván Duque and representatives of the foreign ministries of Bolivia, Peru Y Ecuador in which They talked about the importance of Venezuela again belonging to the Andean Integration System (SAI).
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“We return to the Andean System of Integration and the Andean Community of Nations with the intention of strengthening our institutions, in order to build together an area of Freedom, Peace and Democracy for the well-being and progress of our citizens, ”wrote the interim president.
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Guaidó explained that as a legitimate representative of your country, will make Venezuela “immediately join the migration and mobility measures.” He also added that It will seek to “make the integration process more effective, with an agenda in the areas of commerce, investments, services, interconnection and Andean identity”.
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For its part Colombian President Iván Duque said that the CAN has always worked under a feeling of brotherhood among the countries that comprise it, especially in times of difficulty, so he stressed that “This has to be the opportunity to regain the presence of Venezuela,” referring to the Andean Community.
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“We have just had a nice conversation between the foreign ministers, with my person and President Guaidó and we told him that it is necessary to turn that page of 2011 where Hugo Chavez abruptly withdrew Venezuela from this block, ”said Duque in the midst of the 50-year celebration of the CAN.
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Venezuela that joined the commission in 1973. During the regime of Hugo Chávez in 2006, he requested his exit from the block for not communicating with the economic policies on the free trade agreement that Chávez considered as an “old capitalist and neoliberal scheme”, so five years later as dictated by the agreement, the withdrawal was formalized.
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The CAN is currently made up of the governments of Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru, but it also has the participation of Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay, Paraguay and Chile as partner countries.
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One of the most important aspects to evaluate of the announcement made by the presidents of Colombia and Venezuela is the prescription of the request for migratory documents to Venezuelan citizens who want to enter any of the member countries.
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Venezuela is currently suffering one of the most important migration crises in the history of Latin America, it is estimated that around 5 million Venezuelans have been forced to flee the country because of the crisis that has left the socialist dictatorship.
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Justly CAN member countries have been the most affected with the diaspora Venezuelan, which resulted in countries like Peru and Ecuador imposed a series of requirements and immigration documents to allow Venezuelan citizens to enter the respective countries.
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With the re-entry of Venezuela to the CAN, countries would have to review those requirements since 2003 citizens of the four countries of the Andean Community can enter without passport any of them, with the sole presentation of their respective identity document, which in the Venezuelan case would be the ID.
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