Kids Fleeing Venezuela Left Hungry, Sick and Even Abandoned

On a recent humid evening in the Colombian border city of Cucuta, a Venezuelan woman wrapped her newborn daughter in a pale yellow blanket and left her with a note alongside a car parked near a stadium hosting a high school field day. “I don’t have the means to take care of her,” she wrote on graph paper with a pink border of hearts, paw prints and flowers. “She is four days old and her name is Angela.” About an hour later, another woman, her son and a teenage friend emerged from the...

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