Venezuelan migrants are seen stranded outside of the Venezuelan embassy while they hope for a flight to return to their country after the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) quarantine measures left them without livelihoods, in Santiago, Chile May 14, 2020. REUTERS/Fabian Cambero
SANTIAGO (Reuters) - Hundreds of Venezuelans seeking to return home gathered in a makeshift tent camp outside their embassy in Santiago on Thursday, as the coronavirus outbreak spurs a reverse migration wave of those who fled their crisis-stricken country in recent years.
Cases of the coronavirus have spiked in the past week in Chile, prompting increasingly tough lockdown measures that have left many out of work and Chile's once stable economy in tatters.
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