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Venezuelan migrants face crime, conflict and coronavirus at Colombia’s closed border

  • Written by Annette Idler, Visiting Scholar, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University; Director of Studies at the Changing Character of War Centre, and Senior Research Fellow, Dept. of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford
imageVenezuelans try to enter Colombia at the closed Simon Bolivar international bridge borders crossing, March 16, 2020. Normally, 40,000 Venezuelans come into Colombia every day.Schneyder Mendoza/AFP via Getty Images)

Millions of Venezuelans fleeing their crisis-ridden country already had plenty to worry about on their journeys, from food to transport...

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