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2023-09-15 Caribbean-Latin America

Colombian elected officials charging millions on packages to guide migrants toward US border, report says

[FOX] Local politicians have reportedly been charging big bucks per month to help shepherd migrants through a section of the jungle between Colombia and Panama known as the Darien Gap, moving what is estimated to be hundreds of thousands of people so far this year north toward the U.S.-Mexico border.

The New York Times reported Thursday that instead of clandestine human traffickers skirting authorities, politicians, prominent businessmen and elected leaders in Columbia have openly been charging millions of dollars a month on packages promising to transport migrants through the Darien Gap. This is despite the Biden administration and the governments of Columbia and Panama vowing earlier this year to curb the massive migration pattern through that area.

"We have organized everything: the boatmen, the guides, the bag carriers," Darwin Garcia, an elected community board member and former town councilman in Acandi, a Colombian municipality at the entrance to the jungle, told the Times.
Thanks, Border Czar.
Thanks, USAID/US State department partners.

Posted by Skidmark 2023-09-15 01:06|| || Front Page|| [11136 views ] Top
File under: Migrants/Illegal Immigrants

Humanitarian Assistance.

The UN estimates 7.7 million people in Colombia will require humanitarian assistance during 2023 due to the effects of climate-related disasters and armed conflict, while an additional 5.4 million Venezuelans in Colombia and vulnerable host community members will require humanitarian assistance during the year, according to the Regional Coordination Platform for Refugees and Migrants from Venezuela (R4V). Amid recurring natural disasters and armed conflict, the influx of approximately 2.5 million Venezuelan migrants and refugees in Colombia, as well as the return of nearly 1 million Colombians from Venezuela in recent years, has strained local services and exacerbated food, health, livelihoods, nutrition, protection, shelter, and water, sanitation, and hygiene needs in both rural and urban areas of the country.

In response, USAID supports partners to provide humanitarian assistance to internally displaced persons (IDPs) conflict-affected populations, Venezuelan migrants and refugees, as well as vulnerable host community members across Colombia. USAID-funded programs aim to address acute food insecurity among Venezuelans by providing emergency food assistance, including cash transfers for food, food kits, food vouchers redeemable in local markets, and hot meals. To address the humanitarian needs of Colombian IDPs, USAID partners provide emergency food assistance, health, protection, shelter, and water, sanitation, and hygiene support, while also implementing activities to bolster agricultural production and livelihoods.

Posted by Besoeker 2023-09-15 10:18|| 2023-09-15 10:18|| Front Page Top

#2 While there are undernourished, overweight folks in the US of A?

That needs to stop!

Posted by Bobby 2023-09-15 18:37|| 2023-09-15 18:37|| Front Page Top

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