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Venezuelan families seek a better life abroad
https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/inpictures/venezuelan-familiesseek-life-181209153646560.htmlAlmost three million people have fled Venezuela over the past three years to escape poverty, food insecurity and violence, according to the latest United Nations statistics.
The Latin American country's economy has collapsed and inflation is predicted by the International Monetary Fund to reach one million percent before the end of this year.
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Colombia hosts the largest number of Venezuelan migrants - more than one million have arrived since 2015 - in a crisis likened in scale to that of the war in Syria by the UN human rights body.
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Estimates suggest more than 350,000 children have made the dangerous crossing to Colombia, facing grave risks, such as trafficking and recruitment by armed groups and organised criminal gangs.
