Chronicles Of A Venezuelan Exodus: More Families Flee The Crisis On Foot Every Day
One young woman is walking to find work so she can send money back to Venezuela for a nephew who has leukemia.
Another is traveling with four of her five kids, in search of food for her family.
As another family hikes along, the husband walks ahead to hide his tears from his children.
As Venezuelans flee their country's deepening economic and humanitarian crisis, Latin America is trying to cope with the largest number of refugees on record. Some 3.4 million Venezuelans are seeking refuge abroad, with the largest number in neighboring Colombia.
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An team recently traveled along one of the Venezuelans' frequent pathways from the Colombian border city of Cúcuta south to Colombia's capital, Bogotá, and discovered dramatic stories of an exodus that began a few years back and has now shifted. What used to be primarily migrant men looking for jobs over the border, relief workers say, are now increasingly groups made up of women and children — whole families who feel they have no choice but to go. By foot. Those traveling on foot, as most are, have been given a collective name: . The Walkers.
