Collected Item: “COVID forces 100,000 Venezuelans back home”
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COVID forces 100,000 Venezuelans back home
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Over the past five years, Venezuelan migration to Peru has really picked up. With an impoverished country, political corruption, and sometimes no food, Venezuelans have exited in mass. Now with COVID-19, people have found themselves in dire straits and wishing to reverse migrate. This tweet of a WSJ article captures the story of a father and mother who trekked for over 3 months from Peru to Venezuela with their infant son.
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Peru, Venezuela, migration, poverty, unemployment
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David Luhnow
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2020-08-30