The government of Venezuela denounced on Tuesday that Canada “has not issued visas” to the men’s basketball team, which is to play against the North American country this Thursday, November 10.
The Minister of Youth and Sports, Mervin Maldonado, assured that the team had requested “duly the necessary visa” more than two months ago through the Venezuelan Basketball Federation, in order to “participate this qualifying window for the 2023 World Cup”. .
“With less than 24 hours before the deadline, the visas have not yet been issued,” the official said on his Twitter account, where he accused the Canadian government of having committed a “flagrant violation of international regulations. on visas for athletes”.
A similar incident was experienced by the volleyball team last September, on this occasion, with Chile.
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Then, Venezuela rejected that Chile “did not grant” the visas to the members of the men’s volleyball team, who were going to travel to the Andean country to participate in the South American tournament, “despite having carried out the relevant and mandatory procedures in a timely manner and meet each of the requirements.
Chile, for its part, denied having rejected the visas requested by the Venezuelan national team for this dispute during the qualifying phase for the 2023 South American Games, and assured that the problem was that the documentation was not had not been submitted on time.
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