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As more Venezuelans flee, the crisis pushes deeper into Colombia
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/02/venezuelans-flee-crisis-pushes-deeper-colombia-190205154614543.html-------------
Late last year, places like Pamplona saw a steady trickle of Venezuelans walking through. Now, hundreds of people camp in the streets each night. The next day, they leave and more arrive.
"I don't think anyone expected it to be like this," said Eric Huxley, Colombia country director for the aid group Samaritan's Purse, who has lived near the Venezuelan border since September.
No one knows exactly how Venezuelans are arriving. Figures from Colombia's migration authority do not add up to the spike reported by shelters throughout the zone, suggesting more people are using routes between official ports of entry and arriving undocumented.
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More than three million people have fled Venezuela, and more than a million of them have settled in Colombia, a number which Colombian officials estimate could quadruple in the year to come.
