'Staggering' Venezuelan Exodus Jumps to 4 Million Citizens
- Over 1 million people have crossed borders since November ’18
- Neighbors need international help to address crisis, UN says
A Venezuelan child flies a kite at the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) camp in Maicao, Colombia.
Photographer: Federico Rios/Bloomberg
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Roughly 4 million citizens have fled Venezuela’s spiraling economic and political crisis, according to the latest figures from the United Nations.
The exodus has reached a “staggering” pace, climbing from 695,000 people in all of 2015 to over 1 million people since last November, the UN Refugee Agency and the International Organization for Migration said in a report released on Friday.