'Is this Miami?': an Iraqi refugee family's odyssey in Colombia

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AFP English
  • 7 years ago
When the Hadi family got off the boat, they thought they had completed their dream of leaving behind their native Iraq, devastated by war, to start a new life in the United States. But after enduring a tortuous voyage from Turkey, they realized they were in Colombia.

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