Report from Latin America by Tom Belger.
‘I didn’t come here to die,’ says Venezuelan Eduardo Blanquis, 21, as he recounts how Colombian beggars threatened to kill him unless he left their country.
Earlier this year, the UN warned that Venezuela had reached a ‘crisis moment’, with at least 2.3 million citizens fleeing abroad amid shortages, violence and hyperinflation.
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