In early November, hundreds of former fighters from the Farc marched to Bogotá, the capital, demanding work opportunities and better protection. Duque promised to improve housing and security, but laid the blame for the violence at the feet of dissident Farc fighters who have returned to arms.
In Carrizal, conditions are worsening. Shacks are falling apart, the roads and pathways torn up, and residents’ only way to communicate with the outside world is a public wifi with intermittent service. A few commercial projects, such as pineapple crops and beekeeping, have proven unproductive as the camp is so far from markets.
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Attacks and Insults Greet Venezuelans Fleeing a Ruined Homeland
Matthew Bristow and Jim Wyss, Bloomberg News A medical staff member of the San Jose Hospital assists Venezuelan migrants in a temporary camp in Maicao, La Guajira, Colombia, on Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2020. Many of the estimated 1.8 million Venezuelans in Colombia live in overcrowded conditions that make social distancing impossible, conditions that had tens of thousands of migrants returning to Venezuela. , Bloomberg
(Bloomberg) On a bus in the Colombian capital of Bogota last month, knife-wielding men threatened Venezuelan passengers. In Guayaquil, Ecuador, a battle with clubs between local vendors and Venezuelans erupted over sidewalk space. In English-speaking Trinidad, Venezuelans avoid speaking Spanish in public.
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(Reuters) - Representatives of fuel suppliers to Venezuela, importers of Venezuelan oil and advocacy groups said this month they plan to press the incoming administration of U.S. President-elect Joe Biden to reverse a ban on crude-for-diesel swaps.
FILE PHOTO: A worker collects a crude oil sample at an oil well operated by Venezuela s state oil company PDVSA in Morichal, Venezuela, July 28, 2011. REUTERS/Carlos Garcia Rawlins
The Trump administration since the last quarter of 2020 has barred companies from sending Venezuela diesel in exchange for crude. Those deals were exempted for more than a year from sanctions on state oil company Petroleos de Venezuela SA, aimed at ousting President Nicolas Maduro, who has overseen an economic collapse.
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