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Hungry, sick and increasingly desperate, thousands of Venezuelans are pouring into Colombia

May 15th, 2018
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Link: https://www.blacklistednews.com/article/65816/hungry-sick-and-increasingly-desperate-thousands-of-venezuelans-are-pouring-into.html

The huge increase in Venezuelan migrants fleeing their country's economic crisis, failing healthcare system and repressive government is affecting the Cucuta metropolitan area more than any other in Colombia. It's where 80% of all exiting Venezuelans headed for Colombia enter as foreigners.

Despite turning away Venezuelans with cancer or chronic diseases, the hospital treated 1,200 migrant emergency patients last month, up from the handful of patients, mostly traffic collision victims, in March 2015, before the Venezuelan exodus started gathering steam.

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