HRW: Latin America Must Unify On Venezuelan Refugees – And Regime

“What needs to be done now is the adoption of a region-wide temporary protection that would grant all Venezuelans legal status and a work permit to stay for a specific period of time in each of these countries,” said HRW senior researcher Tamara Taraciuk. Taraciuk presented a new report on the refugee crisis - "The Venezuelan Exodus: A Regional Response to an Unprecedented Migratory Crisis Is Urgent" - with Human Rights Watch’s Americas director, Jose Miguel Vivanco. Vivanco called the Venezuelan regime a “bloody dictatorship…that laughs at its own people” amid their struggle to feed themselves and find basics like medicine. As a result, he said Latin America has to start pressuring Venezuela now the way other regions have. More…