Leaving Venezuela: How Colombia is shouldering a migration crisis

Venezuela is in an economic free fall. It may have one of the world's largest oil reserves, but that doesn't mean it can feed or care for its own people. The mass migration from Venezuela — due to corruption, hyperinflation and economic mismanagement — is currently one of the biggest movements of people on the planet. President Nicolas Maduro has denied the scale of the migration, and claims his country's financial problems stem from an "economic war" waged by "foreign subversives." The United Nations International Organization for Migration (IOM) estimates 2.3 million Venezuelans have fled since 2014 due to severe inflation and food shortages. The numbers are stark. The individual stories and faces and details even more so. Here are a few of them. More…