Natasha Niebieskikwiat
04/24/2020 - 14:20
- Clarín.com
- Politics
A new schedule from the Foreign Ministry to bring stranded citizens abroad promises the return between this Sunday and May 3 of some 3,104 more citizens , including trouble spots in terms of contagion of coronaviruses such as Madrid, Barcelona, Miami, Guayaquil, Ciudad from Mexico and Cancun, among others.
And also, between Transport and Foreign Relations it was agreed that there are no more private company flights that come from outside empty to take their citizens. The latest flight plan established another 2,900.
However, there is great confusion over the true number of Argentines wanting to return to the country. A few weeks ago, Foreign Minister Felipe Solá had said in the Foreign Relations Committee of Deputies - a virtual meeting monitored by its president, Eduardo Valdes - that there were 10,000 stranded abroad because the number had risen from the records that had initially been made consulates and embassies abroad.
Those records began to be made after the land, river and international and national airports were closed. This Thursday, Solá gave another piece of information. "There are still 20,000 Argentines left outside and only 400 can enter per day," El Destape, one of the ultrakirchnerista media in which the minister feels most comfortable speaking, sentenced to radio.
In other words, the number is double, although the Government has already brought thousands, in charters paid in full by the Foreign Ministry, in others paid half-way with governments such as Mexico, on flights with the Air Force, and also on flights that resumed Airlines Argentinas, Latam, Copa, Edelweiss.
To tell the truth, the stranded crisis consumes most of the executive's work in the Foreign Ministry , and it still cannot be resolved. In the ministry they explain something that has its logic. The Argentine emigration in the world, estimated at approximately 1 million people say, begins to be broken by the economic crisis caused by the pandemic. And in that sense, it is no longer just Argentine workers who were temporarily in countries like Andorra, Australia and Mexico, who want to return, but people who were residing for years as emigrants and seek to return to their country, where the economy it is also broken.
Legislators from the Argentine opposition, including Luis Petri and Waldo Wolff, managed to file a claim in the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights for the stranded to protect their rights. And also the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, recalled that it is their right to have the state return them to their homes. But at the rate the situation is going, many of those outside, at least those in less vulnerable conditions than others, will have to keep waiting.