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Venezuelan exodus to reach 5.3 million by 2019, UN says
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/venezuelan-exodus-5-3-million-un-1.4946322The United Nations says the number of Venezuelans fleeing the country's economic and humanitarian crisis is expected to reach 5.3 million by the end of 2019 in what has become the largest exodus in modern Latin American history.
The UN High Commissioner for Refugees said Friday that humanitarian organizations will need $738 million US to provide migrants with critical services like food and emergency shelter as added stress is put on receiving nations.
"We know that thousands leave every day, so if you do the math, I think if we're not there [yet], we'll be at the same scale of the Syrian displacement quite soon," Feline Freier, a professor and researcher at the Universidad del Pacífico in Peru, told CBC News in September.
"We're talking about forced displacement. These people leave Venezuela because if they do not leave, they don't survive."
