Since last year, the number of Venezuelans denied entry to the country has increased many times. Between 2014 and 2016 there were only 124 Venezuelans were not admitted, but from 2017 through July 2018, 1,592 Venezuelans were denied entry to the Dominican Republic.
The number of Venezuelans coming to the country has also increased since 2014 due to the precarious living conditions in that country under the government of Nicolás Maduro, including lack of medicines and rampant inflation.
According to Immigration statistics, the number of deportations of Venezuelans is less than the number not admitted, standing at 216 from 2014 to May 2018.
The Venezuelan population in the Dominican Republic stood at 3,434 in 2012 according to the National Survey on Immigrants in the Dominican Republic, and the same report in 2017 showed 25,872 Venezuelans living in the country.
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Diario Libre
24 July 2018
