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Bacchus4.0

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Fri Dec 27, 2019, 11:22 AM Dec 2019

Fleeing by foot: The Venezuela exodus grows

https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/inpictures/fleeing-foot-venezuela-exodus-grows-191125175503686.html

Cucuta, Colombia - Caminantes, as millions of Venezuelan walkers are known, trek along South American highways, cross mountain ranges where temperatures dip below zero and move across low arid lands where temperatures soar to 40 degrees.

Political instability, economic collapse and rising insecurity in Venezuela have triggered the flight of nearly 4.5 million people from their home country in recent years. Four out of five have remained in South American and Caribbean countries where the availability of work, healthcare and education services offer the chance to carve out a brighter future.

They are day labourers and nurses, teachers and shopkeepers. Some travel with their families, others hope to send money to cash-strapped relatives back home where the cost of living has spiralled out of control and a typical month's salary won't buy more than a bag of rice.

The movement of Venezuelans out of their country represents one of the fastest-growing displacement crises in the world and the most severe in Latin America's modern history - a humanitarian emergency stretching thousands of kilometres across multiple countries - to sparsely populated highlands of Colombia, the streets of Ecuador, Peru and Chile's largest cities, and beyond.
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Fleeing by foot: The Venezuela exodus grows (Original Post) Bacchus4.0 Dec 2019 OP
2020 is going to be Wellstone ruled Dec 2019 #1
 

Wellstone ruled

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1. 2020 is going to be
Fri Dec 27, 2019, 02:11 PM
Dec 2019

the year of discontent in South America. Watch for food riots as well as looting's to be the norm rather than a one off happening.

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