Venezuelan migrants

Álvaro Callama is an electrician from Venezuela who fled to Colombia two years ago. He says immigrants in the country are struggling after the authorities passed measures to prevent the spread of the new coronavirus.

After Fleeing Crisis, Venezuelan Migrants Now Struggle In Coronavirus Lockdown

11:25am April 03, 2020

by John Otis

Colombia is home to about 1.7 million who fled neighboring Venezuela in recent years. Now that it has shut down to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, the migrants say they are extra vulnerable.

Venezuelan boats are moored at a port in Willemstad, Curaçao, in February. For many Venezuelans, Caribbean islands like Curaçao are escapes from their country's turmoil.

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Venezuelans Take Risky Voyage To Curaçao To Flee Crisis

10:33am June 21, 2019

by John Otis

Most Venezuelans looking to emigrate cross land borders into Colombia or Brazil. But for many, Caribbean islands like Curaçao are much closer escapes from their country's turmoil.

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Gusmary Añez sits in a tent with two of her children. She and her husband, along with their four children, had been sleeping outdoors in Maicao, a Colombian town near the Venezuelan border. Now they live in one of 60 tents at the camp that house more tha

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Venezuelans Find Temporary Lifeline At Colombia's First Border Tent Camp

4:55pm May 02, 2019

by John Otis

The United Nations refugee agency set up a facility in Maicao near the Venezuelan border, providing help for more than 300 migrants. The facility aims to expand to meet the growing need.

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Marianne Menjivar heads the International Rescue Committee's Colombia office. She says Venezuela's crisis has made family planning impossible.

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Chronicles Of A Venezuelan Exodus: More Families Flee The Crisis On Foot Every Day

1:18pm April 04, 2019

An All Things Considered team recently traveled along a common Colombian route taken by Venezuelans fleeing crisis in their country and discovered dramatic stories of an expanding exodus.

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People try to salvage humanitarian aid after the truck carrying it was set ablaze on the Francisco de Paula Santander International Bridge between Colombia and Venezuela, on Feb. 23.

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'We're Leaving Out Of Necessity': Venezuelans Top List Of Asylum-Seekers In Spain

8:34am March 06, 2019

by Lucia Benavides

Spain has recorded more than 255,000 Venezuelans living in the country, with estimates even higher, as families flee the South American country in deep crisis.

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Fishermen wait to help people going to Colombia across the Arauca River near San Fernando de Apure in Venezuela in February 2017. More than 1 million Venezuelans are estimated to be living in Colombia.

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Fleeing Crisis, Some Venezuelans Are Recruited By Rebel Forces Fighting In Colombia

1:34pm January 18, 2019

by John Otis

Venezuelan migrants come into contact with Colombian guerrillas after crossing the river border. The migrants have turned up among captured and killed rebels, a Colombian military commander tells NPR.

Members of the Tovar family, recent Venezuelan immigrants in Trinidad. Eleven of them live in a cramped two-bedroom house in the Trinidadian town of Couva.

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Trinidad Faces Humanitarian Crisis As More Venezuelans Come For Refuge

9:50pm December 18, 2018

by John Otis

Tens of thousands of Venezuelans have fled to the Caribbean country in recent years. Now Trinidad's government is adopting a harder line toward the newcomers.

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Residents of the Brazilian border town of Pacaraima burn tires and belongings of Venezuelan immigrants, after an attack on their makeshift camps.

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Venezuelan Refugees Face Violence And Closed Borders As They Try To Flee

8:22pm August 20, 2018

by Shannon Van Sant

Over the weekend an angry mob attacked Venezuelan migrant camps in a Brazilian town near the border. Ecuador has declared a state of emergency, and closed its borders to those without passports.

A crowd waits to cross the border into Colombia over the Simón Bolívar bridge in San Antonio del Táchira, Venezuela, in July 2016.

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Venezuela's Deepening Crisis Triggers Mass Migration Into Colombia

5:23pm February 20, 2018

by John Otis

A downward economic spiral, food shortages and a host of other problems have driven thousands of Venezuelans to flee to nearby countries.

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