Identification, Migration and Immigration Service (Saime) Venezuela Since December 10 last year, it has issued 4,015 identity cards in the town of Tumeremo, near Guayana Esequiba, an area of ​​nearly 160,000 square kilometers that the country disputes with Guyana, the government said this Saturday.

The Venezuelan Ministry of the Interior and Justice explained that “a total of 4,015 identity documents” were issued “on a special day” with which the Chavista government seeks to offer Venezuelan citizenship those living in the disputed area controlled by George Town.

The event, organized by Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, “provided a service to more than 30 sectors of the municipality of Sifontes,” bordering Guayana Esequiba, “as well as six educational institutions that benefited the region’s indigenous communities“, the inscription notes.

Saime plans to resume this work on January 8 “to continue document extensionand identification for the first time” in this city in the Amazonian state of Bolivar, also bordering Brazil.

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Via Instagram, the institution shared several photos and videos showing ID cards being issued in the mining town where authorities will be temporarily based. created unilaterally by Maduroin an attempt to annex the disputed territory to Venezuela.

Issuing identity documents to those living in the disputed territory is one of the measures proposed by Venezuela after the December 3 the majority approved the annexation of the territory in a unilateral referendumwhich caused diplomatic tension in the region.

However, on December 14, Maduro and his Guyanese counterpart Irfaan Ali, after a meeting in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, agreed: Don’t threaten each other and “avoid incidents” in the area to reduce tensions., although the dispute remains at the International Court of Justice, which Caracas denies. (EFE)