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Venezuelan Migrants Stuck At Ecuador Border

19/08/2018 GMT

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Thousands of Venezuelans stranded in Colombia after Ecuador imposed entry restrictions

Thousands of Venezuelans stranded in Colombia after Ecuador imposed entry restrictions.

Thousands of Venezuelans fleeing economic hardship have found themselves stranded in Colombia after Ecuador imposed new entry restrictions;  A tribunal in Colombia has begun preliminary hearings into alleged war crimes committed during Colombia's decades of conflict; and the World Health Organisation includes hoarding on its list of illnesses for the first time.


(Image: Venezuelan citizens wait in line to cross to Ecuador. Image: Leonardo Castro/AFP/Getty Images)

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