Fotos: Cuban migration: Life on the border: Colombian town transformed into limbo for Cuban migrants

9While the Turbo residents’ help has been significant, during the period of over two months that the Cubans lived in the town, there were days where they went without food.
“It’s like a mafia that often has been established with the complicity of authorities.” She remarks that the coyotes don’t just let anyone pass, blocking the route, stealing the little that the migrants have brought with them, and often ultimately abandoning them.
Liduine Zumpolle, a Dutch woman who has been working in human rights in Colombia for decades, has followed the migrants’ plight.
She reports that addition to the dangerous jungle conditions that await them, the so-called “coyotes” (people who charge migrants $2000 to help smuggle them across the Mexico-US border) have only worsened the situations of those trying to get their piece of the American dream.
Many report that they almost reached the point of malnutrition.

Fuente: http://elpais.com/elpais/2016/08/08/album/1470653534_358557.html