Human rights alert: The passage of Venezuelan migrants through Colombia, Panamá, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, Guatemala, and México on the way to the USA.

 

The passage of Venezuelan migrants through Costa Rica in Central America, https://youtu.be/V6CgGNRiM1s

How I migrated from Venezuela to Costa Rica: certainties and uncertainties. Testimony is a necessary tool to problematize Costa Rican institutionality in terms of migratory processes. Article (Jimena Palma et al, 2019)  http://dx.doi.org/10.15359/rldh.31-1.1

We have reached the point where almost at every corner, at every traffic light, there are Venezuelans in the city of San José asking for help on their journey to the United States.

This problem is not new, that is why in this space we share an article that dates back three years.

The sustained increase in mobilizations from Venezuela to Costa Rica appears as a highly complex phenomenon, the revision of which has quickly exhausted the traditional categories of analysis.  This is why, from a human rights perspective, this article is based on the story and experience of the migrant as a necessary tool to highlight the shortcomings and limitations of the Costa Rican institutional framework that embraces individuals mobilized from Venezuela. Access to human rights, for example, guarantee to due process and information, and even the right to migrate (or not to be forced to do so) is questioned from the experience narrated by Andreina, who migrated to Costa Rica seeking to improve her quality of life and whose experience is vital to deconstruct the discourse that has been perpetuated by the institutions that regulate the access of migrants and by the State as guarantor of human rights. Both the geopolitical analysis of the Venezuelan context, as well as the analysis of her story, manage to materialize the structural and cultural violence that is reproduced by the institutional framework and public policies designed to contain the growing human mobilization throughout Latin America. 

 

My experience in Costa Rica is related to the human rights of Venezuelan higher education students whose human rights are being violated by the University of Costa Rica and therefore by the Costa Rican government, protected by the Law of the Republic in force since 1966 number 3740.

 

Ordinary Costa Ricans should begin to worry about a populist president, who rules by decree, and whose presidential escort that transports the president by land from Zapote to Monterán violates traffic laws on the Inter-American Highway (Pan-American Highway) daily.

 

Feliz y Saludable November 2nd, 2022 by rafaelvilagut@gmail.com