Newsweek: In Pictures: Thousands of Venezuelans Join Mass Exodus into Colombia
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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WNU Editor: For many Venezuelans there is no choice .... 'Migrate or Die': Venezuelans Flood into Colombia Despite Crackdown (VOA). Brazil has declared an emergency, and now Colombia is increasing security .... Colombia to heighten security at Venezuelan border with introduction of e-readers as humanitarian crisis worsens (Bogota Post). Here is an easy prediction .... it is going to get worse.
