Permits and changes that are given to Venezuelans without warning
In 2018, the Temporary Permit of Permanence (PTP) was created, which allowed Venezuelans to have formal jobs and access to basic services in order to survive in Peru without having many difficulties or discrimination by the State, but after a while this permit was altered in 2019 to a requirement that says that all those who entered and requested said permit had to have an available visa to enter Peru in a legal way, showing that they were not going to cause any damage to our country, but this was something that many of them did not have because they had entered illegally and were only looking for a way to leave their country, but still with good intentions.
There are
many restrictions that are given to them, because of a waiting policy that
means the delay of asylum applications from Venezuelans who must wait years for
a positive response, and due to the lack of this they are not recognized as
valid to be employ. One restriction that is given are to public services, for
example, it is recorded that half of the Venezuelan population in Peru over 18
years of age has never used Peruvian health services, this due to the lack of
permits and the great discrimination against them every time they go somewhere,
it is also monitored how many of the Venezuelan children did not attend school
this past years, with 28% of minors not going because of not having enough
places for their registration to take place and the parents not having the
financial resources to pay the high fees. There was a campaign that helped
raise money so that schools could admit children and go from June 2019 to
February 2020, until the pandemic began.
We know
that Covid-19 arrived as a disease without us realizing it to attack all the
people of the world without barriers, also making our daily lives difficult,
but not many of us have thought about how this came to affect people who were
not in their country and couldn’t return, as it is the case of Venezuelans in
Peru. Venezuelans already had many problems integrating into the Peruvian
population and with this significant change it also gave big disadvantages,
there were 721,500 Venezuelans in a shelter, but when the pandemic hit at the
start of 2020, the number changed, they no longer offered them enough food, the
due hygiene, necessary care, education for minors and protection against
injustice.
There has
always been hatred towards Venezuelans and apparently this is going to change
very little, a great example is how they add and change laws just because they
think it is convenient for the state, but not for Venezuelans who are the ones
who are really suffering here. At the moment, every time something new appears,
Venezuelans are minimized and there is no attempt to help them. There should be
a way for everyone to be calm and not receive hatred, just to look for a good
future and recognize everyone as beings who are seeking for the same thing: survive.
Source:
Schmidtke,
R; & Oquenda, A. (2021). Los efectos Humanitarios de la Pandemia
de COVID-19 para las personas venezolanas en Perú. Un año después. Recovered from https://static1.squarespace.com/static/506c8ea1e4b01d9450dd53f5/t/606b6b3308998b1dfb44dbb0/1617652531379/Los+Efectos+Humanitarios+de+la+Pandemia+de+COVID-19+para+las+personas+venezolanas+en+Peru%CC%81.+Un+an%CC%83o+despue%CC%81s.pdf
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