More than 11,000 Venezuelans left Colombia this weekend for Ecuador via the Rumichaca International Bridge after the Ecuadorian country’s announcement that it would begin applying for a humanitarian visa to enter the nation. Thus, between Saturday and Sunday «more of 11,000 Venezuelans carried out the migration control process in Rumichaca and it was possible to evacuate this high flow of travelers, ”according to the director general of Migration Colombia, Christian Krüger Sarmiento, just when they began to ask for a humanitarian visa to allow them to enter the Ecuadorian territory. Krüger himself explained the sensitivity of the situation and stressed that his country respects the decisions of neighboring nations, such as the Ecuadorian, although marking distances with this decision to restrict the passage and demand a humanitarian visa: “Impose drastic measures such as the visas or closing a border is not the solution to serve a population that is dying of hunger, that is pa saying needs ». “These types of measures encourage irregularity, crossing through unauthorized steps and corruption, since migration, when necessary, does not stop,” stressed the director general of the Control and Immigration authority of the coffee Executive. Migration Colombia , the Colombian Government’s Immigration and Immigration Control authority, also pointed out, for its part, that more than 11,000 Venezuelans left the Colombian country this weekend through the Rumichaca International Bridge to Ecuador, at the time the requirement enters into force. on the part of the Ecuadorian Administration of the duty to have a humanitarian visa to allow access to Ecuadorian soil.Migración Colombia published a statement explaining the last passage of Venezuelan exiles through the border crossing between Colombia and Ecuador: “With less than six hours before the visa requirement begins, the immigration control of all foreign citizens was carried out. who were at the Rumichaca Immigration Control Post. ”This border link is what links the Colombian city of Ipiales with the Ecuadorian Tulcán. “4,500 Venezuelan citizens had carried out the immigration control process in Rumichaca, thus, as established by law, their regular departure from the national territory,” stated the official note from Migración Colombia. Precisely, the mayor of Ipiales, Ricardo Romero, already declared on Friday a state of public calamity as a result of the massive arrival of Venezuelans bound for Ecuador. According to Romero, daily “at least 3,000 people pass through the border bridge.” In this way, since last July, the transfer of Venezuelan citizens from Colombia to Ecuador has accelerated, coinciding with the Ecuadorian announcement about the start of the petition for humanitarian visa, and more than 85,000 people of Venezuelan nationality have left Colombia in this last period of time to go to Ecuador; reaching more than 37,000 in the last week. The figures are alarming, in Colombia more than 1.4 million Venezuelans have already settled; of which 732,390 are regular, since they have the proper papers to reside on Colombian soil; but, on the contrary, 665,665 Venezuelans are as ‘irregular’ in Colombia because they have exceeded the time of stay or have entered the country without authorization.Meanwhile, the Colombian president, Iván Duque, referred this Sunday to the Venezuelan migratory crisis by assuring that, despite the fact that in many countries “extreme nationalisms and xenophobia are observed,” the coffee nation “shows the world that It is capable, in the midst of difficulties, of showing that solidarity is a value that distinguishes it. ”And this is yet another proof of the humanitarian crisis in Venezuela, a country from which hundreds of thousands of people continue to flee. before the serious political, economic and social problems of the country. A nation with rampant hyperinflation that is home to a population that suffers from a shortage of basic necessities, violence in the streets generated by political instability and serious day-to-day problems related to continuous power or water supply cuts. Michelle Bachelet, Commissioner for Human Rights of the United Nations (UN), has already denounced the alarming deterioration of human rights in Venezuela. In the report made after his visit to the Caribbean country last June, it was already pointed out that “the Venezuelan population is facing very diverse and interrelated violations of their economic and social rights.” On the other hand, a dialogue is still being sought for a political solution for the difficult situation that Venezuela is going through. A solution that now passes through negotiations between the Government of Nicolás Maduro and the opposition, led by Juan Guaidó, with international mediation sponsored by Norway; which, at the moment, have not borne fruit, despite the constant contacts that have occurred in recent times, especially those carried out on the island of Barbados.Conversations through which opposition leaders and part of the international community demand the holding of new free general elections in Venezuela, since they reject the electoral results that gave Maduro power in January, understanding that the elections were manipulated .