Venezuelan families made destitute by Colombia’s coronavirus lockdown
are walking a thousand miles or more across the Andes to get home.
Nicolas Maduro’s Venezuela might be undergoing one of the deepest
economic slumps in modern history, but it’s still preferable to sleeping
in a park in Medellin, or under a bridge in Bogota, which are now the alternatives for many migrants.
When the crisis started last month, Joe Urbaneja, 45, lost his $10-a-day
job in a workshop in Popayan, in southwest Colombia. He set out on foot
again, hiking up and down the same sweltering valleys and wind-swept
peaks he crossed in the other direction a year earlier.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-04-03/pandemic-sends-families-on-1-000-mile-trek-to-maduro-s-venezuela
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