Although the recent rains have increased the flow of the Táchira River, the Venezuelan citizens decide to cross it for the crisis that crosses the country.
With crutch and missing a leg, with a girl on the shoulders, carrying another person although the water reaches the waist, with the sack of potatoes in tow. That is how hundreds of people cross the Táchira River on the border between Colombia and Venezuela every day.
They are the Venezuelans who go to the neighboring country in search of food and medicine. They are the hardships that live in a country like Venezuela, in which there is nothing, but above all, lack hope.
They are risking their lives for improvised bridges in search of opportunities. When you get to the pastry section and change shoes: another journey is about to begin.
They come to look for what they do not find in their country and insist that the solution is “to get Maduro” out of power.
And it is that by the Simón Bolívar bridge there is only step for special cases.
Due to the restricted transit, not even the relatives of the deceased persons can spend the next years towards Venezuela; The drama is complicated for those who lose their loved ones on the Colombian side.
Meanwhile, in Táchira, on the other side of the border, the governor Laidy Gómez blamed Nicolás Maduro’s regime for the risks run by the settlers when they had to cross the river.
The flood of the Táchira River caused that this Tuesday a group of Venezuelans broke the picket of the Bolivarian National Guard that was stationed in the Simón Bolívar International Bridge to cross to Colombia.
Images disseminated through Twitter also showed how the road was full of people who wanted to reach the neighboring country. Some stopped over the containers placed by the officials to prevent the entry of humanitarian aid.
With information from La Voz de América.
