Diagnori Gomez was prepared to walk, but the cold still
caught her by surprise.
She’d left her home in the Caribbean coastal city of
Maracay, Venezuela three days earlier for Colombia’s border. From there she
walked 65 miles in two days, trekking through Colombia’s tropical lowlands to
the arid mountains that mark this northeastern part of the country. Now the
44-year-old mother and former kitchen worker stood before the paramo, the cold
and treeless Andean highlands that guarded her path toward Trujillo, Peru, more
than 1,000 miles, where family awaited and where she hoped to find a job. It
was likely to be a two-week trek, depending on how many rides she could hitch
along the way. More…
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