Monday, October 30, 2017

Colombia hosting 470,000 Venezuelans


Colombia is bearing the brunt of Venezuela’s economic and political chaos, President Juan Manuel Santos said Friday (Saturday in Manila), hosting nearly 470,000 people who have fled the crisis. He told reporters that Colombia was the country that “suffers most” from the crisis in Venezuela, with which it shares a 2,200 kilometer (1,370-mile) long border. Santos accused his Venezuelan counterpart Nicolas Maduro of “destroying democracy” at a news conference in Bogota. “We have made immense efforts to try to defuse this crisis in order to achieve some kind of democratic and peaceful solution,” he said. More…

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