With at least 11 passengers drowned between Venezuela and Trinidad, the fatal count of a historic tragedy grows: our people are trapped between traffickers, Maduro’s dictatorship, and the indifference of the Trinidadian government
From the confusing incident, we only draw clear conclusions: Venezuelans are suffering; the island’s government is xenophobic and; the regime is indifferent; The AN asked Trinidad to stop the abuses
29 Venezuelan refugees, 16 minors among them, were missing for a day after the Trinidadian government put them in wooden boats back to Venezuela. They are safe now but the story hasn’t ended
A shipwreck saved her the first time, but the human trafficking ring that works from Güiria to Trinidad and Tobago came back to get her one year later
It’s hard to comply with mandatory isolation in Cumaná, the capital of Sucre State. Without food, fuel or cooking gas, people must improvise so they can eat amid a pandemic.
The International Migration Organization just announced that Venezuelans are now the first nationality among over 500 migrants who have disappeared in the Americas in 2019.
Yubreilis was one of the few who came back to her Sucre village, after the boat she sailed on to a new life in Trinidad wrecked at Boca del Dragón strait. This is her story.
In the past six months, three Venezuelan boats carrying Venezuelan migrants have sunk at sea. At least 50 people have disappeared on these dangerous journeys to the neighboring insular States.
Venezuelan doctors are now sailing to Trinidad in search for supplies they can no longer find back home. This week, three of them did not make it back after their boat stalled and sank at sea.
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