About 1.7 million Venezuelans have fled in recent years and settled in Colombia. Many get by working odd jobs, with the worst off sleeping in the streets. That makes them especially vulnerable to both COVID-19 and the effects of the economic shutdown.
Álvaro Callama is an electrician from Venezuela who fled to Colombia two years ago. He says immigrants in the country are struggling after the authorities passed measures to prevent the spread of the new coronavirus.Álvaro Callama is an electrician from Venezuela who fled to Colombia two years ago. He says immigrants in the country are struggling after the authorities passed measures to prevent the spread of the new coronavirus.
"My mother works in a restaurant but all the restaurants have shut down," says Callama, who lives in La Calera, a farm town on the outskirts of the Bogotá."My uncle is a welder but he was laid off. We are trying to figure out what to do." That makes them especially vulnerable to both COVID-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus, as well as to the economic shutdown, says Daniel Pagés, president of the Association of Venezuelans Living in Colombia.
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