Olympic boxer, Eldric Sella says he would move to Uruguay from Venezuela

Venezuela: On Tuesday, Venezuelan boxer Eldric Sella, who represented the Olympic refugees at the Tokyo Games, said that he would move to Uruguay after failing to return to Trinidad and Tobago, where he lived.

Sella persisted only 67 seconds in his first Olympic competition, apologizing for his loss and causing a wave of solidarity among Venezuelans, who suffered as an icon of the problems facing the country's economic crisis.

The 24-year-old posted a photo on Instagram on Thursday with the message "today I am privileged to start again in this country, which without thinking twice opened the doors and gave me the keys to make it my new home to make (...) Thank you Uruguay! "

The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said that he was trying to support Sella and his family in late July. A UNHCR representative told on Tuesday that Uruguay had affirmed the agency's request to offer Sella resettlement, or to transfer a refugee from an asylum country to another state and eventually provide them with permanent residence. granted.

In a remark, Uruguay's Foreign Ministry stated it had allowed to resettle a Venezuelan national at the behest of the UNHCR, but did not mention Sella.

In an interview after the fight, Sella's father, Edward, told that Trinidad and Tobago would not permit him to return. It was not promptly clear why he could not return.

Venezuela's intelligence ministry did not instantly respond to a request for remark. In July, Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza said that Sella was "not a refugee" and could come back to Venezuela.