{"id":68757,"date":"2019-06-15T04:53:06","date_gmt":"2019-06-15T04:53:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/?p=68757"},"modified":"2019-06-15T04:53:06","modified_gmt":"2019-06-15T04:53:06","slug":"68757","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/world\/68757\/2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Venezuela crisis: Migrants rush to cross Peru border"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"s1\">Thousands of Venezuelans have rushed to cross into Peru in a bid to beat the introduction of tougher migration laws.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"s2\">From midnight local time (05:00 GMT) on Saturday, Venezuelans will need to have a valid passport and visa to enter Peru.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"s2\">The new requirements prompted a dash to the border from those fleeing Venezuela&#8217;s years-long economic crisis. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"s2\">Some four (4) million people have fled Venezuela since 2015, according to the United Nations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"s2\">The country&#8217;s imploding economy has resulted in high unemployment and shortages of food and medicine, and hundreds of thousands of people are said to be in need of humanitarian aid.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"s2\">Prior to Saturday&#8217;s deadline, Venezuelan citizens wanting to enter Peru only require a national ID card.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"s2\">Nearly 6,000 Venezuelans entered through the border town of Tumbes on Thursday, officials said, which is almost three times the daily average.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_68758\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-68758\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-68758\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.akatanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/1C5C1ADB-419C-43A1-B81B-AC426589B3BC-300x168.jpeg?resize=300%2C168&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-68758\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image copyright<br \/>REUTERS\/Image caption<br \/>Many Venezuelans will be unable to meet the new immigration requirements<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands of Venezuelans have rushed to cross into Peru in a bid to beat the introduction of tougher migration laws. From midnight local time (05:00 GMT) on Saturday, Venezuelans will need to have a valid passport and visa to enter Peru. The new requirements prompted a dash to the border from those fleeing Venezuela&#8217;s years-long [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":68759,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,23],"tags":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68757"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68757\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}