Refugee Camps Overflow as Number of Venezuelan Migrants Reaches 3 Million

According to the UNHCR, the number of people who have left Venezuela for other destinations around the world has now reached three million.
Refugee Camps Overflow as Number of Venezuelan Migrants Reaches 3 Million
Jose Urdaneta, a 19-year-old Venezuelan living in an improvised refugee camp in Bogota, Colombia, on Nov. 9, 2018. Luke Taylor/Special to The Epoch Times
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BOGOTA, Colombia—“What is the worst thing you have ever lived through?” asked José Urdaneta, describing his living conditions in a camp in Colombia. “Imagine that, but five or 10 times worse.”

Urdaneta is one of the many Venezuelans who have fled their crisis-stricken country. According to a new report by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the number of people who have left Venezuela for other destinations around the world has now reached 3 million, roughly one in 12 of the nation’s population.