Venezuelan soldiers want to flee from your country, you need to consider this carefully. This is because a return to hard penalties to you and abroad, you have little chances to work. From Ipiales Ofelia Harms.
Request for help on the roadside: “dear brothers and sisters in Colombia and Ecuador, we are from Venezuela and are looking for a friendly Hand can help us. God bless you”
“When I return to Venezuela, I need to to prison for ten years”. Jackssel Mujica has good reasons to return to his homeland the back. The former members of the Bolivarian national guard has fled. As a deserter from the threat of long prison him met.
“I could not stand the commands longer,” says the 28-Year-old. The protests in the country, he should beat down, often with violence and tear gas, “but among the people the family members and friends were… and they all protested, because they are starving”.
Begging in exile
Jackssel Mujica tries to help his family and friends from abroad. Almost every day he sends from Colombia ten thousand Peso. Even if he can pay so little for a meal, the equivalent of three dollars to the food needs of an entire family in Venezuela.
Work of the former soldier did not. For the past six months, Mujica lives in the Colombian city of Ipiales in southwest Colombia, only five kilometers from the border with Ecuador. Here he begs at the roadside with a sign and explained to passers-by and car drivers in a difficult situation. With his Cousin Yiron and other people he comes daily to make ends meet. Five to six dollars must get every single one, to be able to provide accommodation and food to pay for.
Venezuelan refugees in Ipiales sell candy on the street
Überwältigtes Colombia
Up to four thousand Venezuelans have crossed in the past few months the border from Colombia to Ecuador. Most of them leave their home, because they have to go hungry. Many also try to help with money transfers from abroad to their families.
Most wanted to continue in the direction of the South, to Peru or Chile. But since then, Ecuador has restricted the passage, many in Colombia are stuck. Most of them have no passport and thus may not be legal in the neighboring country. Colombia not to, welcome you feel but really.
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Venezuela – escape from a destroyed country
“Many treat us like Dirt,” says Álvaro Terán. In the city center of Ipiales, the former lawyer of coffee sold in a thermos and Venezuelan “arepas”, the traditional pastry bags. When he tells of his past, he can’t fight back the tears. “We had everything: a house on the beach, new cars, even a boat to go fishing”. Nothing of it remained.
Also the brother of Álvaro Terán is deserted. He was a member of the Venezuelan military and fled some years ago to Brazil, and then on to Colombia. With his wife and a daughter he landed in the city of Ipiales.
The second daughter is still in Venezuela and has just had a Baby. Again álvaro’s wet eyes. “In a month I’m going back to my grandson to get to know the child. If it’s the last thing I do,” he says, and tries to sell the rest of the coffee before it is cold.