A new account of the people who lost their lives on Friday, when a sailing vessel headed by Venezuela in Trinidad and Tobago, about 100 kilometers from the coast, while fears are expressed that the victims may be more.
“At the moment we have six dead, four women and two men,” Delta Amacuro (northeast) Governor Liseta Hernandez told local media on Monday, adding that investigations were continuing to identify “ten civilians”. who are ignored, probably three of them minors “.
Authorities did not specify exactly how many people were on board on the boat that sailed from the village of La Orceta to Trinidad, as broadcast by AMPE.
Delta Amakuro’s news website Tane Tanae initially reported that 24 people were aboard the boat, citing information provided by survivors. Seven people are known to have been rescued.
In a joint statement, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and the International Organization for Migration (IOM) expressed their “deep concern”, as “while living conditions continue to deteriorate (…) Venezuelan citizens continue to attempt to immigrate in a way that endangers their lives.”
Many Delta Amakuro residents travel illegally to the islands of Trinidad and Tobago to find work amid the ongoing crisis in Venezuela, which remains facing with an economic downturn exacerbated by financial sanctions, especially from the USA, in order to force the socialist president Nicolas Maduro to relinquish power. The two islands of the Caribbean country (1.3 million inhabitants) are estimated by various sources to have migrated from 25,000 to 40,000 Venezuelan citizens.
Many travel on old, overloaded boats and shipwrecks are not uncommon.
Nearly 30 bodies were recovered in a sea off the coast of Guiria, a seaside town in the eastern state of Sucre, in December. In 2019 and 2018, at least two vessels that had departed from Venezuela to Trinidad and Tobago sank, killing some 100 people, according to the opposition.
More than 5 million Venezuelans have emigrated in recent years as the once-thriving Latin American economy collapsed. The government signed an agreement with the UN World Food Program on April 19th to distribute school meals to students in need.
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