In Colombia Border Town, Desperate Venezuelans Sell Hair to Survive
- 6 years ago
In Colombia Border Town, Desperate Venezuelans Sell Hair to Survive
that I sold my hair to feed my girl,
"We can’t go back, and we can’t stay here." It is a view shared by thousands of her compatriots who have fled to Cúcuta, where the
struggles of adapting to life in a new country can seem more attractive than the hunger and upheaval they endured back home.
In Colombia, most of those who legally cross the country’s porous border do so on foot at the Simón Bolívar
Bridge, just outside Cúcuta, where migration officials say around 30,000 people cross daily.
17, 2018
CÚCUTA, Colombia — For the past three weeks, Wilya Hernández, her husband
and their daughter, 2, have been sleeping on the garbage-strewn streets of Cúcuta, a sprawling and chaotic city on Colombia’s side of the border with Venezuela.
that I need an angel,
"If I can’t afford to go the bathroom, I’ll go on the street," Ms. Hernández added.
that I sold my hair to feed my girl,
"We can’t go back, and we can’t stay here." It is a view shared by thousands of her compatriots who have fled to Cúcuta, where the
struggles of adapting to life in a new country can seem more attractive than the hunger and upheaval they endured back home.
In Colombia, most of those who legally cross the country’s porous border do so on foot at the Simón Bolívar
Bridge, just outside Cúcuta, where migration officials say around 30,000 people cross daily.
17, 2018
CÚCUTA, Colombia — For the past three weeks, Wilya Hernández, her husband
and their daughter, 2, have been sleeping on the garbage-strewn streets of Cúcuta, a sprawling and chaotic city on Colombia’s side of the border with Venezuela.
that I need an angel,
"If I can’t afford to go the bathroom, I’ll go on the street," Ms. Hernández added.