Maduro Offers Love for Migrants, Then Locks Them in Sweltering Camps

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https://www.yahoo.com/news/maduro-offers-love-migrants-then-162353486.html

(Bloomberg) -- Venezuelan migrants who lost their jobs amid the coronavirus crisis were promised a warm welcome back home by the government of President Nicolas Maduro. Instead, they’re sleeping on cement floors in sweltering quarantine camps, where they’re beaten if they complain.

When Edgard Lopez boarded a cramped bus in Bogota on April 4, he thought he was days away from seeing his family for the first time in three years. He had just lost his job at a cleaning-product factory which closed for the duration of the lockdown imposed by Colombian authorities.

Instead, Lopez is detained at an armed forces’ border checkpoint with hundreds of others, including children and expectant mothers.

“They said they would test us and if we came out negative we could keep moving toward our destinations. It was all a lie,” Lopez, 37, said via text message. “They turn on the water only twice a day for two hours and there are 330 of us. If I had known it’d be like this, I would have never come back.”

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“All must be received with love, warmth and all preventive measures,” Maduro said of the returning Venezuelans on state TV on April 5. “Now they’ll know they have a motherland. A free and supportive country, ready to greet them with open arms.”

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1. This is exactly why I have zero respect for org. like Code Pink, etc.

they continually bash the US but don't condemn the criminally corrupt regime in VZ.
I can't see how anyone, especially any progressives, can support this regime in VZ, it boggles my mind that they support a criminal dictator like Maduro and his toadies.