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Thursday, February 21, 2019

Massive Crisis In Venezuela

NY Times: Venezuelans Fleeing Crisis Face Desperate Hike to 12,000 Feet By Nicholas Casey and Jenny Carolina González
The walking began before dawn: before the clouds broke against the mountaintops, before the trucks took over the highway, even before anyone in the town woke up to check the vacant lot where scores of Venezuelan refugees had been huddling through the night.

Children, grandmothers, teachers, nurses, oil workers and the jobless had all sprawled there together — bound by a collective will to put as many miles as possible between themselves and the collapsing country they had fled.

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