Family and Food

bus: All share a dogged determination to escape, according to The Guardian. Food became so expensive that for months we weren't able to eat three meals a day, says Harry Flores, 41, who has been queuing for nine days with his family in the hope of boarding a bus to Peru. Some carry their earthly possessions in suitcases or backpacks, others plastic bags containing water and snacks for the long journey ahead. When he does secure those seats, Flores, an unemployed computer engineer who sold his car to bankroll the trip, will join a historic exodus from what was once one of South America's wealthiest and most stable societies. That would mean some 4.3 million people 14% of Venezuela's population had taken flight. The UN estimates that 2.3 million Venezuelans have fled since 2015 with Colombian authorities predicting 2 million more could follow by 2020. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.