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@Cat_lucy1 Try Santo Domingo then charter flight (Tui, Thomas Cook etc) from Punto Cana

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@CartelWatchNet Uribia is in Colombia, not Venezuela

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@Melquisedec70 Estuve volando en Amazonas en un DC3 con 80 años de servicio

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@Fa21519230 https://t.co/D2I136jvH3

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@InSightCrime excellent podcast, very in depth look at gold mining here in Colombia, thanks guys!

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@NoticiasCaracol Museo Geological Nacional en Bogotá es también muy recomendable

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@StePozzebon @onebedtweet Madrugones! But also a culture of everyone having a TV in their bedroom doesn't help....

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'Caminantes' - Venezuelan migrants crossing Colombia on foot - descending from the bleak moorlands, the Párama de Berlin, after crossing at Cúcuta. There are many routes across Colombia, but the Andean paths were safest and most populated despite the hills and cold conditions.

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Snack stop for Venezuelan migrants walking the Colombian Andes in 2018. Most anaylists now predict another exodus as the Maduro regime refuses to publish election tallies and doubles down on dissent.

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Maduro regime locking up 1,500 persons since the election of July 28, many 'disappeared' with no access to family or lawyers, taken by masked men off the streets. Many are adolescents. Parents report police are demanding bribes of US$500 to free their kids.

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Attending patients in a rural health post in Delta Amacuro, Venezuela, run with support by NGOs. Despite giving vital aid, organizations with international donors face harassment, theft of supplies, and constant threats of expulsion from the Maduro government

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'Los Caminantes' walking 10 days from the Venezuelan border get free food and hygiene kits at a church-run kitchen in Salitre, Bogotá, in 2018. Colombia hosted 2.8 million migrants in 2024, many of the poorest, part of a whopping 8 million people fleeing Venezuela since 1999.

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Venezuelan farmers like José, with his family in Santander, picked Colombian coffee for US$4 a day. But back home was worse with rural areas under attack by armed gangs. Here was a scene straight out of Grapes of Wrath. I gave them a ride south.

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Warao, 'People of the Canoe', in the Orinoco Delta, now paddling the vast wetlands after bartering their outboards for food and the fuel supply ran out. Most speedboats now belong to guerrillas and drug gangs running cocaine out to cargo ships in the Atlantic.

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@CaracasChron Bogotá

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Bogotá: more shots of Venezuelans gathering today to support the Opposition in their home country, part of a coordinated protest in Venezuela and around the world.

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@BHPanimalwatch yes, probably influences from US and other countries like China, Iran and Russia. But Venezuelans can and should decide for themselves, if you believe they have that right.

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Petare, Caracas: often cited as the largest slum in Latin America, run by heavily-armed gangs, but also home to upwards of 500,000. Traditionally Chavista, many residents flipped the script after July's stolen election and marched against Maduro. They are now paying the price.

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@BHPanimalwatch Offical stats 360k to 720k, hard to get a figure since much is informal housing, and many people shifting. In 2019 Caracas was emptying, but in 2021-2 there was internal migration to the capital as food and services were scarcer in rural areas and small towns.

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@BHPanimalwatch from Wiki, the GoV has so far failed to produce the tallies, so the '51%' declared Maduro vote is not backed by any data. Opposition has obtained 83% of the tallies which show 67% vote to Gonzalez, most analysts agree.

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