'Get me back to Caracas': desperate Venezuelans leave lockdown Bogotá
Their ambitions for a new life in Colombia shattered, migrants are
lining up for the bus journey back to an uncertain future
Rosa Vera, a 40-year-old from a small town in crisis-ridden Venezuela,
thought moving to Colombia would give her the chance to find work. Five
months ago, she left her family and began the arduous journey to Bogotá,
the Colombian capital, to look for a job.
Instead, as coronavirus shut down economic life in the city, Vera and
more than 400 Venezuelans had no choice but to camp out for a month,
waiting for help to get them home.
“I left Venezuela because the situation was so bad that I couldn’t feed
my family,” Vera says, as cars whizz along the highway that cuts through
the impromptu camp. “I never thought that here I wouldn’t be able to
feed myself.”
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2020/jul/04/get-me-back-to-caracas-desperate-venezuelans-leave-lockdown-bogota
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