Biden Grants Protections for Venezuelans to Remain in U.S.
Lara Jakes and Anatoly Kurmanaev, New York Times, March 8, 2021
As many as 320,000 Venezuelans living in the United States were given an 18-month reprieve on Monday from the threat of being deported, as the Biden administration sought to highlight how dangerous that country has become under President Nicolás Maduro.
The immigrants also will be allowed to work legally in the United States as part of the temporary protective status the administration issued as it considers the next steps in a yearslong American pressure campaign to force Mr. Maduro from power.
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That agreement formally ended over five decades of bitter war that killed more than 260,000 people and forced over 7 million to flee their homes. During the war, the Farc and other rebel groups recruited minors – a practice that dissident factions have continued.
Local news reports and opposition lawmakers have claimed that as many as 12 minors may have perished in the operation, though forensic authorities have not yet confirmed the ages or identities of the dead. The defence ministry only said that 12 people had been killed.
At least one child – Danna Lizeth Montilla, 16 – is known to have perished in the strike. Her father, Jhon Albert Montilla, told the local newspaper El Tiempo on Thursday that she had been staying with family in the rural region, and may have been forcibly recruited by the rebels.
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When Monica Nadira Angulo heard two loud explosions, she thought they were just firecrackers, commonly heard throughout Colombia in the holiday season. Angulo, 11 at the time, was playing with friends in the La Playita neighborhood of Buenaventura, which juts up against the Pacific Ocean.
When she turned, she saw a boy pointing a gun at her.
She didn’t realize what was happening until he fired a shot, sending Angulo and her friends running into the nearest house.
Since then, Angulo, who is now 19, says that violence has been a constant in her life in Buenaventura. The level of violence has always ebbed and flowed, but something changed in recent months.