Monday, September 24, 2018

Latin America Now Has Its Own Migrant Crisis

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.

1 comment:

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