Colombia has been hospitable to 350K Venezuelans...But now it's turning frosty. Bogota's liberal mayor says taxpayers have done enough for them!

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This Country Is Setting the Bar for Handling Migrants

The conservative government of President Iván Duque in Bogotá is offering citizenship to Colombian-born babies of Venezuelan mothers.

www.theatlantic.com

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Colombia has welcomed hundreds of thousands of Venezuelan migrants. But they have been hit especially hard by the pandemic.⁠
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The lockdown has been hardest for Venezuelans who are informal workers there. The virus has increased xenophobia. False reports of Venezuelans breaking into gated neighbourhoods, spread through Facebook, prompted police to deport some.⁠
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