Members of Venezuela's significant Haitian community staged a protest in front of their Consulate Tuesday due to presumed irregularities at the diplomatic entity.
The marchers called on the Venezuelan government to "help them get these people out of the Consulate because they don't want to work for the Haitian community in Venezuela."
It wasn't exactly clear at this time what exactly they were expecting the consulate to do for them. They did make clear what it is they are doing, and which they consider insufficient.
They said that the Consulate only serves to develop commercial relations between the two countries, and is "becoming a money-changing center, a business for buying passports."
They asked Venezuelan Foreign Minister Nicolás Maduro to start an investigation into these claims.
Thousands of Haitians, both legal and illegal, live in Venezuela, as it tends to offer more economic possibilities and political stability than the troubled nation of Haiti.
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