A month later, Áñez's government announced Bolivia's entry into the Lima Group, a regional bloc established in 2017 to find a way out of the Venezuelan crisis. The Bolivian foreign ministry said in a statement that it hoped to "contribute to a peaceful, democratic and constitutional solution to the crisis in Venezuela, which must be guided by the Venezuelan people." The same month, her government announced that it would give refuge to 200 Venezuelans "who have fled their country for reasons of political order, of political persecution promoted by the government of Nicolás Maduro".