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Migrants in Spain and Water in Colombia: The Week in Global-Affairs Writing

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Rescuing Migrants from a Couch in Galicia
Gregory Beals | Foreign Policy
“Over the past four years, De Andrés says she has built a network of about 3,000 refugees and volunteers without ever leaving her hometown of Vigo. She calls it “Red Alert”—a play on red, the Spanish word for net or network.

De Andrés is not a trained aid worker, but her collaborative efforts to track people attempting to

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