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Colombia Laments Lack of Aid for Growing Venezuela Migration Crisis

Reuters

   BOGOTA - International donors have been significantly less generous in
   their support of Venezuelan migrants than other global refugee crises,
   Colombia's foreign minister said on Tuesday, as he repeated a request
   for more aid money.

   Colombia has borne the burnt of mass migration from its neighbor, which
   is mired in a deep political and economic crisis that has caused
   long-running shortages of food and medicines.

   More than 1.4 million Venezuelans have fled to Colombia in recent
   years, pressuring healthcare services, school places and other basics
   like food and shelter.

   The United Nations had called for global donations of $315 million in
   2019 to help Colombia - itself a developing country - cope with the
   influx. But as of last week, it had received just 30 percent of that,
   said Foreign Minister Carlos Holmes Trujillo in a statement.

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