On Thursday, Mayor Claudia López referred to the attacks during a visit to lay flowers where Caro was slain, stating: “Everything is offered to Venezuelans, the same guarantees as all Colombians have. First they murder, then they steal,” remarked López, recalling a similar statement on Twitter after the capture of Muñoz’s murders, in which she wrote: “I don’t want to stigmatize Venezuelans, but there are some who are seriously making our lives extremely difficult.”. Full Text -> TheCityPaper

Instead, as coronavirus shut down economic life in the city, Vera and more than 400 Venezuelans had no choice but to camp out for a month, waiting for help to get them home. By Joe Parkin Daniels. Full Text -> The Guardian

Some 500 migrants and a dozen buses were stranded near the toll booths that mark the northern border of Bogota, the Colombian capital, as migration authorities limited transport amid passage restrictions at the border. There has been a mass movement of thousands of Venezuelans back to their economically devastated country since Colombia imposed a nationwide lockdown last month. By Oliver Griffin. Full Text ->Reuters

Most Venezuelan migrants in Colombia pay for food and accommodation with whatever they can earn day to day. COVID-19 has made even this hand-to-mouth existence untenable for many, and restrictions are set to last for several weeks, if not months. By Bram Ebus. Full Text -> The New Humanitarian

Taking in the gravity of the situation, last summer the city of Bogotá began a campaign to alert citizens to the growing problem of child begging and the services available to children and their parents who either beg or work on the informal market to make a living. By Sarah Hucal. Full text -> abcNews

Collecting and sharing Venezuelan migrant and refugee testimonies. By Tasha Sandoval. Full text -> The Bogota Post