Escape from Venezuela: Colombia border crossing mobbed as starving citizens flee - News Summed Up

Escape from Venezuela: Colombia border crossing mobbed as starving citizens flee


The economic and political crisis is putting pressure on Venezuela’s neighbor as around 25,000 people cross the Simón Bolívar International bridge each day to reach the Colombian town of Cucuta. "I'll return when Maduro goes," Jeferson José Gutierres, who is jobless after fleeing Venezuela with his wife and three children a month ago, told the BBC. “What a humiliation” two women with a baby were heard by the BBC saying as they walked past a Colombian border guard, in search for food and supplies. Some families are crossing into Colombia with empty suitcases to stock up on products that have disappeared on their side of the border. "But what's going to happen when they can't go back because Maduro closes the border, or because armed groups that control the border won't let people go back?"


Source: Fox News September 28, 2017 13:07 UTC



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