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Venezuelan Refugees: Visit Jolie and Capital City

venezuelan refugees: During her visit Jolie met Venezuelan refugees who live at a shelter in the capital city and also went to a border crossing in the north of the country.article continues below Trending Stories Victoria mom desperate for second kidney after heartbreaking transplant result Ken Sim concedes at the 11th hour High times The rise of dabbing On Tuesday, Jolie met with Peruvian President Martin Vizcarra to discuss potential solutions to the migrant crisis and ways of securing international support, according to Vancouver Courier. After the meeting she thanked Peru for taking measures that are helping Venezuelans in that country to get legal status, and urged governments around the world to support procedures that help refugees to apply for asylum. Jolie was ending a three-day visit to Peru as a special envoy for the United Nations refugee agency. None of the Venezuelans I met want charity Jolie said. More than 1.9 million people have left Venezuela since 2015 according to the United Nations and some 400,000 have moved to Peru. They want an opportunity to help themselves. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.