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Coronavirus: Bogotá’s Venezuelan migrants face tough choices

Crisis looms with mass evictions of Venezuelans during coronavirus quarantine

Venezuelans searching for lodging in Bogotá today during the coronavirus. Some families are sleeping on the street after being summarily evicted from hostels in the city centre during the lockdown. Photo: Steve Hide

Migrants and vulnerable informal workers are still being forced out of rooms for rent in downtown Bogotá, families reported today, even after city authorities moved to prohibit landlords from putting families on the street during the coronavirus crisis.

Steve Hide: Steve Hide is a veteran journalist and NGO consultant with decades of experience working in Colombia and around the world. He has coordinated logistics for international NGOs in countries including Colombia, Venezuela and Zimbabwe. He provides personal safety training for journalists via the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting and his journalistic work has appeared in The Telegraph, The Independent, The Bogotá Post and more. He's also the Editor in Chief of Colombiacorners.com, where he writes about roads less travelled across Colombia.

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  • In my opinion, they would contribute the least to the spread of the virus! Traveling to Italy or countries where the disease is prevalent is not an option for them

  • t is a sad reality, but in my opinion it is they who would least contribute to the spread of the virus! they don’t have the resources to travel to Italy or countries where the spread is very high

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