"Here, I'm starving". Thousands flee daily across VZ border with no money, no food, no hope
"Here there is no money or food": Migrate from Venezuela with nothing in your pocket
The Cooperator
translated from spanish
Caracas, February 18 .- The crisis that is currently hitting Venezuelans has led them to cross the border en masse, a phenomenon that Colombia especially resents. An example of this is the case of Gregory Díaz, who crossed the Simón Bolívar International Bridge with a TV in tow, his only birthright.
According to the newspaper El País, Diaz sold the device in Cúcuta and managed to stay a few months with the money received for the business and with the border mobility card. That was the first attempt to emigrate from a young man born and raised in a house with a dirt floor and zinc roof at the tip of the Bolívar district of Petare, in Caracas. A boy of 24 years of age, father of a child of 5, with incomplete baccalaureate, an intermittent carpenter job and no passport.
"Here I do not have a salary, here I'm starving. I want to be able to help my mother, and my sister so that she can study, or in case of bad luck someone gets sick. For thousands of other things that I suffer here I want to go, because here they spend every day thinking about what to eat, because there is no money or food," says Diaz. The offer of a job as a barber is your only certainty.
Díaz is part of a new wave of Venezuelan immigration that has set off alarms in neighboring countries. The first Venezuelan diasporas, which began in 1998 with the arrival of Chavismo in power and have had peaks over two decades, left the country without much of its professional capital, says in between.
https://elcooperante.com/aca-no-hay-plata-ni-alimentos-emigrar-de-venezuela-sin-nada-en-el-bolsillo/
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