Help Venezuelans Survive the Pandemic
Help Venezuelans Survive the Pandemic
With limited access to public services and health care, Venezuelan refugees will suffer. A regional response is needed.
The coronavirus could not have come at a worse time for Venezuelans. Around 5.1 million people have fled the country since 2015, the largest-scale human displacement ever in Latin America – and the second largest on the planet, after Syria. Many of those who left – caught between the dictatorship of Nicolás Maduro and a region struggling to respond to the pandemic – have grown increasingly vulnerable as the outbreak spreads. Without coordinated policies from the region and international actors, Venezuelans’ tragedy could grow exponentially worse.
Right now, around 2.5 million...
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