Desperate Venezuelans sneak across Colombia border to peddle scrap
The border has long been a center of smuggling -- now, the contraband is essentially junk/ The border has long been a center of smuggling -- now, the contraband is essentially junk (AFP Photo/Raul ARBOLEDA)/ Villa del Rosario (Colombia) (AFP) - In the thick vegetation along the Colombian border, bands of Venezuelans make their way unseen, puffing under the heavy loads of scrap metal on their backs like leaf-cutter ants, covered in filth and trying to make enough money to simply survive. Maria, a 52-year-old single mother-of-two, recently ...
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