Every few minutes, the reeds along the Tachira River rustle.
Smugglers, in ever growing numbers, emerge with a ragtag group of Venezuelan
migrants – men struggling under tattered suitcases, women hugging bundles in
blankets and schoolchildren carrying backpacks. They step across rocks, wade
into the muddy stream and cross illegally into Colombia. This is the new
migration from Venezuela. For years, as conditions worsened in the Andean
nation’s ongoing economic meltdown, hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans –
those who could afford to – fled by airplane and bus to other countries far and
near, remaking their lives as legal immigrants. More…
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