Pandemic Sends Families on 1,000-Mile Trek to Maduro’s Venezuela
- Migrants evicted in Colombia walk back home across the Andes
- Lockdowns to curb pandemic hit workers in the informal economy
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Venezuelan families made destitute by Colombia’s coronavirus lockdown are walking a thousand miles or more across the Andes to get home.
Nicolas Maduro’s Venezuela might be undergoing one of the deepest economic slumps in modern history, but it’s still preferable to sleeping in a park in Medellin, or under a bridge in Bogota, which are now the alternatives for many migrants.