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Situated on the border with Venezuela, Cucuta is now a temporary home to 27,000 of the people displayed in the Current Spate of Violence.
In response to the conflict, the general Santander stage has been designed as a humanitarian aid center, providing food, clothing and basic medical care to the displaced.
Beneath the concrete arches on the outside of the stage, lines of people await assistance, some leaning against the metal bars that form barriers along the perimeter. The Mood is tense.
“Right now they are still fighting, removing people, going house to house,” A 21-year-old man from Tibu Told Al Jazeera, his youthful face peering out from a curtain of dark hair.
The braces on his teeth flashed in the Midday Sun. “They already killed many of our friends.”
The local government and nonprofits in cucuta are already feeling the strain of the growing crisis.
“We haven’t seen this child of display before,” said Fernando Sandoval Sanchez, the director of the Colombian Civil Defense, a disaster-relief agency, for the department of norte de Santander. “So many people take from their homes, from their land, from their belongings.”
The Mayor’s Office SAYS Around 280 Displaced People are currently staying in a shelter a short distance from cucuta in villa del rosario, while 1,330 more are housed in local hotel-a costly short-term solution.
But many more are left to find housing on their own, with little support outside their own financial. Some stay with family. OTHERS have considered returning to catatumbo.
A few hotels have responded to the increased demand by raising their prices, making a profit from the crisis.
“The budget is already running out,” says LuSestella Maldonado, a volunteer for the mayor’s office who is part of the team coordinating the humanitarian responses at the stage.
“Obviously we don’t have many resources, and every day we see more and more displacement. The problem is growing. ”
The Exodus from the larvae rural catatumbo has also devastated the region’s economy.
Catatumbo’s farmers have been forced to leave their crops and Livestock, Creating Food Shortages. That has led locals to also seas Support, increasing the burden on nonprofits and government services.
The Mounting Pressure on Humanitarian Aid has created uncertainty for the display population from Catatumbo.
“I don’t know until when we will receive help Lord,” said the 26-year-old Mother. “We are just waiting.”
