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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
World
Sibylla Brodzinsky in Cúcuta

‘We can’t take it any more’: thousands flee guerrilla clashes on Colombia-Venezuela border

People on motorcyles in Colombia.
The Cúcuta city government has registered the arrival of more than 2,000 displaced people from Catatumbo, Colombia, since 22 December. Photograph: Héctor Adolfo Quintanar Pérez/ZUMA Press Wire/Shutterstock

Alberto’s eyes shifted nervously. His chin trembled.

His slender hands fumbled with a manila folder containing his family’s documents, which he was waiting to present to staff of the Human Rights Ombudsman in the north-eastern Colombian city of Cúcuta, in the hope of receiving humanitarian aid.

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