‘I didn’t eat for days’ Hunger hits Venezuelan refugees
Jul 16, 2021
3 minutes
By Steven Grattan MAICAO
A seemingly endless lake of cardboard and tin shacks surrounds the perimeter of a former airport runway in Colombia’s desert-like city of Maicao. Known locally as La Pista, the area is home to more than 2,000 families, and is one of 44 informal settlements to have emerged around the city in the past two years.
Maicao is in La Guajira, the most northern region of Colombia, and sits on the border with Venezuela. The old airport has become a landing strip for desperate migrants and bi-national indigenous Wayuu people fleeing the economic
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