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December 17, 2018 GMTVenezuelans are fleeing their nation’s soaring hyperinflation, mounting hunger and a crippled health care system in what has become one of the largest population movements in Latin America’s history...
Exodus from Venezuela leaves families divided across borders
December 16, 2018 GMTBOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — When Emili Espinoza was finally able to make a video call to the 3-year-old son she hadn't seen since fleeing Venezuela, the little boy named Elvis didn't recognize her...
Kids fleeing Venezuela left hungry, sick and even abandoned
July 13, 2018 GMTCUCUTA, Colombia (AP) — On a recent humid evening in the Colombian border city of Cucuta, a Venezuelan woman wrapped her newborn daughter in a pale yellow blanket and left her with a note alongside a car parked near a stadium hosting a high school field day...
Kids Fleeing Venezuela Hungry, Sick, Abandoned
July 13, 2018 GMTThe face of bloody protests in Venezuela moves on in NY
April 5, 2018 GMTNEW YORK (AP) — When Wuilly Arteaga takes his violin out of its brown case and starts playing Rihanna's "This Is What You Came For" near the platform of a busy Manhattan subway station, several passersby stop to listen or shoot video with their phones...
US tech worker helps fellow Venezuelans flee economic mayhem
March 29, 2018 GMTSAN MATEO, California (AP) — At his stand-up desk in a Silicon Valley office complex, Guido Nunez-Mujica's phone buzzes nonstop as he tries in vain to concentrate on his work...
Brazil struggles to care for Venezuela’s indigenous Warao
March 27, 2018 GMTPACARAIMA, Brazil (AP) — Women cook over a dozen little open fires, while men lie on hammocks inside an adjoining building and naked children with distended bellies and dirty faces run around the shelter for indigenous Warao who have fled Venezuela's troubles...
Northern Brazil overwhelmed by desperate, hungry Venezuelans
March 20, 2018 GMTPACARAIMA, Brazil (AP) — Hungry and destitute, tens of thousands of victims of Venezuela's unrelenting political and economic crisis are trying their luck in Brazil — a country where they do not speak the language, conditions are often poor and there are few border towns to receive them...
US to supply emergency food, medicine to Venezuelan migrants
March 20, 2018 GMTWASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration is providing $2.5 million for emergency food and medicine assistance to Venezuelan migrants in Colombia in the U...
US was a temporary stop for many Venezuelans; now it’s home
March 22, 2018 GMTMIAMI (AP) — Helene Villalonga decided she had to get out of Venezuela for a while when two men, one brandishing a gun, showed up at her party rental business and told her to stop working for local politicians opposed to then-President Hugo Chavez...
Sick Venezuelans flee to Colombia in mounting refugee crisis
March 8, 2018 GMTCUCUTA, Colombia (AP) — In a cramped hospital near Colombia's border with Venezuela, migrants fill stretchers bearing the wounds of the deteriorating nation they left behind...
Sick Venezuelans Flee to Colombia for Treatment
March 8, 2018 GMTVenezuelans recycle worthless bolivar bills into crafts
February 25, 2018 GMTCUCUTA, Colombia (AP) — A family of Venezuelan immigrants to Colombia are repurposing their worthless bolivars into origami-made paper wallets, belts and even purses as the currency plunges further in value amid four-digit inflation...
Venezuelans abroad panhandle with their useless cash
December 28, 2017 GMTBOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Jorge Gutierrez leaps onto a packed bus in Colombia's capital, proudly announcing that he comes bearing gifts from neighboring Venezuela...
Venezuelan prosecutors look to settle scores from exile
December 21, 2017 GMTBOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — In a cramped office in Colombia's capital, where a single window looks onto a narrow air shaft, Pedro Lupera searches through scanned copies of contracts, invoices and bank wire instructions — all part of a trove of hundreds of thousands of pages of evidence smuggled out of Venezuela that he hopes will bring about the downfall of socialist President Nicolas Maduro...
Desperate Venezuelans set sights on Colombia as worry mounts
June 22, 2017 GMTBOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — As the first hint of dawn stretches over a Colombian neighborhood known as "Little Mene Grande" after the warm, Venezuelan city where so many recent arrivals are from, six men and women rise from worn, flattened mattresses...
Groups quietly bypass Venezuela’s ban on humanitarian aid
May 16, 2017 GMTCARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — In a stuffy, second-floor store room, a volunteer sorts through boxes of imported medicines and arranges them one by one on metallic shelves in alphabetical order...
More Venezuelans struggle in US as their country implodes
April 23, 2017 GMTMIAMI (AP) — People crowd outside a church near Miami's international airport, chatting about family and friends left behind in Caracas, Valencia and Maracaibo as they wait more than an hour to receive rice, beans, yogurt and other food for their families...