Venezuelans carrying groceries cross the Simon Bolivar bridge from Cucuta in Colombia back to San Antonio de Tachira in Venezuela, on July 17, 2016 (AFP Photo/George Castellanos)
Krishnadev Calamur, The Atlantic: Latin America Gets Its Own Migrant Crisis
“Venezuela is no longer a pressure cooker. It’s a time bomb waiting to explode.”
Four months ago, 22-year-old Lusiana Garcia, a mother of two pregnant with her third child, escaped an abusive relationship and an incompetent dictatorship. She boarded a bus in Valencia, Venezuela’s third-largest city, to travel 18 hours to Cucuta, a town about 480 miles away and across the border in Colombia. “I only had money for one ticket,” she told me on the phone through an interpreter. “So I had to carry my children the whole way.”
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WNU Editor: This migration crisis in Latin America has been ongoing for almost 2 years. Here is an easy prediction. It is now going to get worse.
