Venezuela: how is the region coping with its collapse?

As Venezuela’s great experiment with “Bolivarian” socialism implodes, it is creating a humanitarian and refugee crisis comparable to Europe in 2015. Travelling by bus, boat and even on foot through treacherous terrain, about 1 million Venezuelans have fled to Colombia alone, and another 2 million are estimated to be in other, mostly neighbouring, countries. There, they often live in desperately unsafe conditions with little food and no medicine, sleeping anywhere they can. So far, there are no United Nations refugee camps, only modest aid from religious organisations and other NGOs. Hunger and disease are rampant. More…