Venezuelan Migrants

[Donde]

There are nearly two hundred and seventy thousand Venezuelan migrants in Cali Colombia, most living on the streets hand-to-mouth. They are among two million economic refugees from Venezuela now living in Colombia.

 

[terry_g]

Venezuela was the third richest county in the western hemisphere in the 1990s.

 

[Derrel]

Portland, Oregon and the immediate surrounding towns have a lot of homelessness...tents are now often pitched with 10 to 50 feet of the freeways. Motorhomes (caravans) are parked everywhere.

There is a YouTube documentary called "Seattle is Dying" that explores the new state of homelessness...it has exploded over the last 10 years

 

[Jeff15]

It's a worldwide problem..............

 

[Space Face]

That Socialism for you.

 

[Donde]

Colombia has had a successfully functioning Socialist structure in place for many years. It's the strata or "estrato" system whereby neighborhoods (or barrios) in cities and towns are ascribed a strata level according to the prevailing economic level of the residents. "Estratos" are from one to six, six being the richest strata. Property taxes and services costs i.e electric, water, cable TV, internet etcetera are determined by strata. The poorest pay the least and the richest the most.

 

[davholla]

Colombia has had a successfully functioning Socialist structure in place for many years. It's the strata or "estrato" system whereby neighborhoods (or barrios) in cities and towns are ascribed a strata level according to the prevailing economic level of the residents. "Estratos" are from one to six, six being the richest strata. Property taxes and services costs i.e electric, water, cable TV, internet etcetera are determined by strata. The poorest pay the least and the richest the most.

That is more social democracy that socialism. Social democracy is taxing the rich to pay for things to give to the poor, socialism is where the Government tries to provide the basic services and controls things a lot more.
Denmark, Norway etc are social democracies, Venezuela socialist.
Although in practice a lot of countries have some social democrat (Medicare in the US) policies and some socialist (e.g. state provided housing) policies.

 

[terry_g]

Is there any help for the migrants? How do they survive?

 

[Donde]

They panhandle mostly. Some get odd jobs. Many in Cali decided they wanted to return to Venezuela for various reasons. The mayor provided twenty buses to take them to the border. More want to go but the city doesn't have funds for more buses.