Camp of Displaced Venezuelans in Cúcuta Attacked with Bombs

The Major of Cúcuta, César Rojas, extended until January 24th to sack them from Colombia

Camp of Displaced Venezuelans in Cúcuta Attacked with Bombs

By: Aporrea/Agencies

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Flaming bombs were launched this Monday January 23rd at night by a group of young Colombians against a camp of 900 Venezuelan citizens who remain in a basketball court in the city of Cúcuta (Colombia).

A group of residents from the Sevilla slum were captured as having been allegedly responsable for the attack that didn’t leave any wounded nor casualties.

 “This must be a cohabitation among communities. We are brother nations and we cannot this play this kind of show at international level of harming Venezuelans”, the Major of Cúcuta, César Rojas, said on his Twitter account.

The inhabitants of the Sevilla slum started this Monday a massive protest, that includes the blockage of roads, because of the arrival of approximately 900 Venezuelan citizens to that sector.

According to the Sevilla inhabitants, the Venezuelans had installed camps in the stadium of the área baptized by them as “Hotel Caracas”.

“Anyone ilegal in Colombia must leave the country. Those who are legal, will be helped to be displaced to other parts of the country. By this Wednesday January 24th the term to leave the Sevilla slum expires”, the local leader of Cúcuta said.

According to a research, more than 35,000 thousand Venezuelan citizens enter daily to Colombia to flee from the social, political and economic crisis in Venezuela.

Source:  Diario Los Andes

Read the article in Spanish here: https://www.aporrea.org/actualidad/n320077.html

English Version: María Eugenia Acero Colomine

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