August 8, 2024

A refugee crisis is the last thing Latin America needs

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Just when it seems the lot of Venezuelans could get no worse, trust President Nicolás Maduro to show that the bottom is lower still. Earlier this month, Maduro dispatched troops to the Colombian border. The emergency? Tens of thousands of Venezuelans who had fled the dystopic Bolivarian republic and then been slammed by coronavirus and the economic shutdown abroad were now desperate to make their way back home. “Biological weapons,” Maduro called them, absurdly blaming unwilling prodigal Venezuelans for the country’s spiking contagion. By Marc Margolis . Full Text-> Buenos Aires Times

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