About 200 mostly Venezuelan migrants stuck at Chile-Peru border

COMPLEJO CHACALLUTA, Chile (Reuters) - Some 200 mostly Venezuelan migrants fleeing poverty at home remained stranded on the Peru-Chile border on Thursday after being refused entry to Chile earlier this week. Chilean Interior Minister Andrés Chadwick told the local press that only "those who meet the legal requirements, regardless of origin and nationality, will enter the country." Latin America is in the grip of an immigration crisis, with millions of people from Central America and Venezuela driven by poverty and violence to seek refuge in other countries while the United States urges governments to reduce the flow of asylum seekers arriving at the U.S. border

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