Venezuelan refugee crisis adds to Colombia's growing challenges

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http://money.cnn.com/2018/02/22/news/economy/colombia-venezuela/index.html

Colombia was once the rising economic star of Latin America. Now it has a long list of challenges — and the latest is an unprecedented refugee crisis.

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Venezuelans are suffering under severe shortages of food and medicine, a worthless currency and a political regime that many governments, including that of the United States, consider a dictatorship.

Those crises are driving people into Colombia in huge numbers. More than half a million Venezuelans were living in Colombia last year, up 62% from the year before. Makeshift refugee camps are popping up in parking lots and parks in Colombia's largest border city, Cucuta.

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The United Nations High Commission for Refugees recently opened a third office along the Colombia-Venezuela border to complement the Colombian government's humanitarian efforts.

[GatoGordo]

1. The food and medicine that Maduro refuses to accept needs to go to Colombia

and Brazil. It is a humanitarian crisis of epic proportions.

And why does Chavismo refuse to accept aid? Because it makes them look incompetent. If children die of malnutrition or adults of easily preventable diseases... that isn't important. What matters is that The Revolution remains! Deaths and misery can be properly spun. Admitting failure cannot.