Years after fleeing the collapsed socialist state, thousands are returning.
“We’ve had to negotiate with the other side, so they accept them little by little,” Muñoz said. “But that’s not something we want to be promoting, because we don't want to have uncoordinated migration flows in the middle of a health emergency.”On the Venezuelan side, at least some returnees are finding themselves herded immediately into quarantine.
Yessika Silva came to Bogotá from Caracas three years ago with her three daughters. On a recent afternoon, they desperately tried to hitchhike, with no luck. “I haven’t been able to earn anything for weeks,” said Silva, 36. Her daughters, she said, are exhausted: “Their legs are throbbing.”Briceño, still being held with her family, said they had struggled to build a new life in Colombia. She found work as a hairdresser; her husband did construction. But when the virus came, they lost their jobs.“Now we are stuck [in Venezuela] with only God to help us.
Faiola reported from Miami. Herrero reported from Caracas, Venezuela. Mariana Zúñiga in Caracas contributed to this report.
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