Venezuela-Colombia Border: Refugees, Crime and Despair
Channel: International Crisis Group
Date: 2020-02-25

As Venezuela’s economy plumbs the depths of collapse, a new cohort of refugees is trekking across parched landscapes to Colombia. It consists of the most vulnerable, including poor expectant mothers, unaccompanied children and the sick, people with no defence against the predations of armed bands.

Read Crisis Group's commentary "Under a Merciless Sun: Venezuelans Stranded Across the Colombian border": https://www.crisisgroup.org/latin-america-caribbean/andes/colombiavenezuela/under-merciless-sun-venezuelans-stranded-across-colombian-border

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