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The Country You Meet on the Bus to Cúcuta

On the ride from Barquisimeto to Cúcuta I met another Venezuela: on the move, on a lark. The people on the bus with me look to Colombia for food, for toiletries, for jobs and a future and the scarcest good of all: hope.

Atilio Valderrama November 28, 2016

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