Chile Eyes Venezuela Diplomatic Reset to Advance Migration Plans

Chile’s foreign affairs minister is eager to resume full diplomatic relations with Venezuela before the government’s term ends in 2030 to facilitate the return of tens of thousands of undocumented immigrants. The ball is now in Venezuela’s court, he said.

Chile is “knocking at their door” in talks, and there are no specific obstacles to restarting consular relations, an important step toward mending ties, the country’s top diplomat Francisco Pérez Mackenna said in an interview from his office in downtown Santiago.

“We are lacking the will and the ‘OK’ from Venezuela,” Pérez Mackenna said. “We are more than willing.”

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