600 Venezuelans Deported from Cúcuta

They were in a temporary camp in the Sevilla slum

Inhabitants of the Sevilla slum celebrate the departure of Venezuelans with their flag

This is how the Venezuelans were deported

Venezuelans are transferred in trucks of the army towards the Venezuelan border

Other Venezuelans were transferred to the frontier with Ecuador

 Source: Web

Jan 25th, 2017.- 600 Venezuelan citizens were deported from a camp installed in a sports court in the slum Sevilla, located in the city of Cúcuta, in the frontier with Venezuela. They were transferred to other Colombian areas, to the border with Ecuador and, most of them, back to Venezuela. The Venezuelans deported were transferred in commercial buses and in trucks of the Colombian army.


After having been rejected by the inhabitants of Sevilla - they were even victims of an attack with molotov bombs - the Colombian authorities decided that those citizens with a passport be sent to Rumichaca (the main bridge between Colombia and Ecuador), the Major of Cúcuta, César Rojas, announced in a video published in social networks.

27 Venezuelans were sent to Ecuador. The Venezuelans with their documents valid and Colombian-Venezuelan citizens were taken to other regions of Colombia with their relatives, several local media reported. The rest, 218 citizens were deported back to Venezuela.



Several Colombians and Venezuelans, and children of Colombians to return to Colombia, stayed in a sport court in Sevilla: a slum of 45,000 inhabitants at the east of Cúcuta. However, the locals proteted during the last days the presence of the Venezuelans by demanding their exit out of the slum, not having taken in consideration the presence of compatriots of them as refugees in that court. The ones in transit, because of the crisis in Venezuela, have not been considered as displaced yet, nor received any solution the way Venezuela has established before, within its policies of inclusion and social protection.

There are approximately six million Colombians in Venezuela. Up to the date, they have enjoyed the same rights as the Venezuelans, and to the moment there haven't been any protest in rejection to their presence in Venezuela yet.

Read the Article in Spanish here: https://www.aporrea.org/ddhh/n320131.html

English Version: María Eugenia Acero Colomine
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