SAN JOSÉ: The UN migration agency is urging Latin American countries hosting growing numbers of Venezuelans fleeing economic crisis to give them temporary rights to stay, its deputy chief told Agence France-Presse on Wednesday (Thursday in Manila).

“There is indeed a spike in arrivals” in several countries in the region, Laura Thompson of the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said after a two-day migration conference in Costa Rica that discussed the accelerating outflow of Venezuelans.

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