The exodus from Venezuela - on a scale echoing the departure of Myanmar's Rohingya people to Bangladesh - is stirring alarm in Colombia. A weary migration official said as many as 2,000 Venezuelans enter Colombia legally through Paraguachon each day, up from around 1,200 late last year. We left everything: money in the bank," said former electronics salesman Rudy Ferrer, 51, who sleeps outside a warehouse in Maicao. 'THE MADURO DIET'Some 3 million Venezuelans - or a tenth of the population - have left Venezuelan since late Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez started his Socialist revolution in 1999. Colombia is letting the migrants access public health care and send their children to state schools.

Source: The Star February 26, 2018 13:07 UTC