FILE PHOTO: A Venezuelan immigrant makes a plea for money on a street corner to help him and his family return home to Venezuela amid the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Guayaquil, Ecuador April 20, 2020. REUTERS/Vicente Gaibor del Pino/File Photo
(Reuters) - Ecuador will implement a new "normalization process" for the 430,000 Venezuelan migrants living in the South American country, President Guillermo Lasso said on Thursday, without providing further details of the plan.
Lasso's announcement, at a conference hosted by Canada intended to raise money to support the more than 5.6 million Venezuelans who have fled an economic crisis in the South American country, came after Colombia in February gave 10-year protected status to the nearly 2 million Venezuelans it hosts.
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