Venezuelans entering Ecuador and Peru will soon be required to show their passports, rather than national identity cards, the Ecuadorean government and Peruvian official sources said on Thursday, amid concerns over an influx of economic migrants.
Ecuador and Peru have hitherto allowed Venezuelans to enter using national ID cards, providing desperate Venezuelans with an easier route out of their crisis stricken homeland.
"As of this Saturday the government will require that anyone entering Ecuador present his or her passport," Ecuador's Interior Minister Mauro Toscanini said. The Foreign Ministry later said it would apply specifically to Venezuelans.