“Everybody wants to return home”: Inside the crisis to move in catatumbo | News on humanitarian crises

Located on the border with Venezuela, Cucuta is now a temporary house on 27,000 people displaced in the current creasing of violence.

In response to the conflict, the General Stadium Santander was appointed as the center of humanitarian aid, providing transferred food, clothing and basic medical care.

Under the concrete arches on the outside of the stadium, the lines of people are waiting for help, some leaning on the metal bars that make barriers along the rim. The mood is tense.

“He’s still fighting, removing people, going home to the house,” said a 21-year-old man from the tub, for Al Jazeer, his youthful face from the curtain dark hair.

The brackets on their teeth flashed in a midday sun. “They already killed many of our friends.”

Local administration and non-profit material in Cucuta already feel the stress of growing crisis.

“We have not seen this type of displacement earlier,” said Fernando Sandoval Sanchez, director of Colombian Civil Protection, Agency for Disaster Relief, for the Norte de Santander Department. “So many people depleted from their homes from their country, from their belongings.”

The mayor’s office says that about 280 displaced persons are currently staying in a shelter in a short distance from Cucuta in Villa del Rosario, while 1,330 more houses are located in the local short-term solution funded by the local government.

But much more is left to find a residential own, with a little support outside of their own finances. Some people stay with your family. Others were considered to be returned by the catatum.

Several hotels responded to increased demand raising prices, making a profit from the crisis.

“Budget is already running out,” says Lutsestella Maldonado, a volunteer for the mayor, which is part of the team coordinating the humanitarian response to the stadium.

“Obviously we don’t have much resources, and we see more and more displacement every day. The problem is growing.”

Exodus from largely rural catatum and is the destructive and economy of the region.

Farmers of the Catatumbo were forced to leave their crops and cattle, creating a food shortage. It has LEDs for support for support, increasing the burden on non-profit materials and government services.

The mounting pressure on humanitarian aid created insecurity for the displaced population from the catatum.

“I don’t know as long as we’ll get help here,” said the 26-year-old mother. “We’re just waiting.”