#Venezuela’s #refugees: “The world’s largest forced migration crisis you have never heard of”

Nearly 5m Venezuelans have left since 2015 — about 15 per cent of the population — and another million are expected to depart this year. That could make the crisis the world's biggest refugee emergency, surpassing Syria. Unlike other humanitarian crises, it is a disaster caused not by war or natural disaster but by misrule on a grand scale.

More than 1.6m Venezuelans are now living in Colombia — more than 3 per cent of its population — and the number is rising by around 3,000 a day, according to the UN High Commissioner for Refugees. The UNHCR figures, and those of the Colombian authorities are thought to underestimate the problem because of the scale of illegal migration. 

Further south, Peru has over 860,000 Venezuelan refugees, while Ecuador and Chile have more than 370,000 each. Another 220,000 are in Brazil and more than 100,000 in the Caribbean islands.

See the whole article on the FT:

Venezuela's #refugee crisis tests Colombia's stability  

https://www.ft.com/content/bfede7a4-4f44-11ea-95a0-43d18ec715f5

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