In Pictures: Thousands of Venezuelans Join Mass Exodus into Colombia

[Bacchus4.0]

http://www.newsweek.com/pictures-thousands-venezuelans-join-exodus-colombia-every-day-820471

Some 3 million Venezuelans—a tenth of the population—have left Venezuela since late leader Hugo Chavez started his socialist revolution in 1999. More than 500,000 have fled to Colombia—many illegally—hoping to escape grinding poverty, rising violence and shortages of food and medicine in the once-prosperous nation.

Photographer Jaime Saldarriaga joined Reuters journalists at the Paraguachón border crossing to document the exodus from Venezuela, which is now on a scale echoing the departure of Myanmar’s Rohingya people to Bangladesh.
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The mass migration is stirring alarm in Colombia. A migration official told Reuters as many as 2,000 Venezuelans enter Colombia legally through the border crossing at Paraguachón each day, up from around 1,200 late last year. But officials estimate as many as 4,000 people cross illegally every day.

[GatoGordo]

1. The humanitarian aid that Venezuela refuses from the US, EU and UN

should go directly to the borders of Brazil and Colombia, where it is a horrific crisis. Colombia and Brazil cannot be expected to deal with this disaster. They don't have the resources. These Venezuelans are literally starving to death.