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Bogota, Sep 1 (EFE).- Colombia on Wednesday began the face-to-face biometric registration of the more than 1.2 million Venezuelans who have accepted the Special Protection Statute.The registration seeks to regulate the situation of the enormous exodus from the neighboring country that has arrived in recent years. (Camera: JUAN DIEGO LOPEZ). SHOT LIST: VENEZUELANS GO TO COLOMBIAN MIGRATION WORKERS TO CARRY OUT THEIR BIOMETRIC REGISTRATION, CONSISTING OF FINGERPRINTS, FACE PHOTOGRAPHY AND SIGNATURE, IN BOGOTA, COLOMBIA.
Touws River (South Africa), Feb 9 (EFE / EPA) .- (CAMERA: Nic Bothma) The soup kitchen "Compassionate Hearts" delivers food to the residents of Touws River, a former railway city labeled as the gateway to the South African desert of the Karoo, and whose unemployment rate stands at 93%.
Dozens of Venezuelan migrants are stuck at a makeshift camp on the border city of Cucuta, Colombia, as they wait to cross into their home country. IMAGES
Bogota, Jul 3 (EFE).- The Colombian Red Cross and the Ministry of Health of Bogota carried out screenings on Friday to detect cases of COVID-19 with at least 400 Venezuelans enrolling to return to their country due to the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus pandemic.The group of Venezuelans occupied a camp set up next to an important highway in the north of Bogota.(Camera: JUAN DIEGO LOPEZ) FOOTAGE SHOWS VENEZUELANS GETTING TESTED FOR COVID-19 IN BOGOTA, COLOMBIA.
Rumichaca, May 9 (EFE).- A group of 88 Venezuelan migrants who had been stranded for almost two weeks on the border between Ecuador and Colombia were evacuated on Saturday from the Rumichaca pass to Quito, where they will take a humanitarian flight back to Venezuela this weekend.These Venezuelans have been transferred within an agreement between the municipality of Tulcan, the closest Ecuadorian town to the pass, and the Venezuelan Consulate in Ecuador, in order to resolve a humanitarian situation after the regional borders were closed in response to the coronavirus pandemic (Camera: XAVIER MONTALVO).SHOTLIST: STRANDED VENEZUELANS BOARDING A BUS TOWARDS QUITO IN RUMICHACA, ECUADOR.
Cucuta, Apr 29 (EFE).- Thousands of Venezuelans' desire to return home following the coronavirus pandemic, which left them without job opportunities in Colombia, has become an odyssey of their entire families who have faced all kinds of obstacles in trying to reach the border. (Camera: STRINGER).SHOTLIST: A GROUP OF VENEZUELAN MIGRANTS WAITING IN A LONG QUEUE TO CROSS THE BORDER BACK TO VENEZUELA IN LA PARADA, OUTSKIRTS OF CUCUTA, THE CAPITAL OF THE DEPARTMENT OF NORTH SANTANDER, COLOMBIASOUNDBITE: JORGE MEDINA, A VENEZUELAN MIGRANT (IN SPANISH).TRANSLATIONS: As you can see me as well as all these Venezuelan waiting a long queue, please do something for us and let us return to our country. We want to return to our country. We don’t want to stay here in Colombia anymore. So, please do something for us.