'Migrate or die': Venezuelans flood into Colombia despite crackdown

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

WORLD NEWS FEBRUARY 26, 2018 / 8:05 AM / UPDATED 9 MINUTES AGO

'Migrate or die': Venezuelans flood into Colombia despite crackdown

Julia Symmes Cobb, Anggy Polanco
7 MIN READ

MAICAO/CUCUTA, Colombia (Reuters) - The desert wind whipping their faces, hundreds of Venezuelan migrants lugging heavy suitcases and overstuffed backpacks trudge along the road to the Colombian border town of Maicao beneath the blazing sun.

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The remote outpost on the arid La Guajira peninsula on Colombia’s Caribbean coast marks a frontline in Latin America’s worst humanitarian crisis.

The Venezuelans arrive hungry, thirsty and tired, often unsure where they will spend the night, but relieved to have escaped the calamitous situation in their homeland.

They are among more than half a million Venezuelans who have fled to Colombia, many illegally, hoping to escape grinding poverty, rising violence and shortages of food and medicine in their once-prosperous, oil exporting nation.

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Read more: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-colombia-venezuela-migrants/migrate-or-die-venezuelans-flood-into-colombia-despite-crackdown-idUSKCN1GA1K9

[COLGATE4]

1. The "Bolivarian Revolution" seems to be

progressing quite nicely.