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Curacao search for shipwrecked Venezuelan migrants | Curacao search for shipwrecked Venezuelan migrants |
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Police on the Dutch Caribbean island of Curacao are searching for a group of 30 illegal migrants after their boat sank during a sea crossing from Venezuela. | Police on the Dutch Caribbean island of Curacao are searching for a group of 30 illegal migrants after their boat sank during a sea crossing from Venezuela. |
Four Venezuelans are known to have died when the overloaded craft hit rocks. | Four Venezuelans are known to have died when the overloaded craft hit rocks. |
Curacao's coastguard have reported a growing number of vessels making the dangerous journey from Venezuela which is mired in a severe economic crisis. | Curacao's coastguard have reported a growing number of vessels making the dangerous journey from Venezuela which is mired in a severe economic crisis. |
President Nicolas Maduro cut transport links to Dutch Caribbean territories last week to prevent smuggling. | President Nicolas Maduro cut transport links to Dutch Caribbean territories last week to prevent smuggling. |
Police say they recovered the bodies of two women and two men. | Police say they recovered the bodies of two women and two men. |
The boat was reported to have been carrying around 30 people when it left La Vela de Coro in Venezuela's north-western Falcon state. | The boat was reported to have been carrying around 30 people when it left La Vela de Coro in Venezuela's north-western Falcon state. |
A local politician said the passengers were all under 35 years old, and some of them were children. | A local politician said the passengers were all under 35 years old, and some of them were children. |
Venezuela hospitals at breaking point | Venezuela hospitals at breaking point |
Child hunger grows | Child hunger grows |
Venezuelans leave for Brazil | Venezuelans leave for Brazil |
The boat had been overloaded when it hit rocks not far from the coast after its precarious 128km (80-mile) journey from Venezuela, according a relative of a survivor quoted by Reuters. | The boat had been overloaded when it hit rocks not far from the coast after its precarious 128km (80-mile) journey from Venezuela, according a relative of a survivor quoted by Reuters. |
The economic crisis in oil-rich Venezuela has been pushing the poorest to make dangerous journeys in search of work and a future. | The economic crisis in oil-rich Venezuela has been pushing the poorest to make dangerous journeys in search of work and a future. |
Until recently Venezuelans routinely travelled to the more prosperous Curacao and Aruba in search of work or staple products that are unavailable back home. | Until recently Venezuelans routinely travelled to the more prosperous Curacao and Aruba in search of work or staple products that are unavailable back home. |
But Aruba and Curacao have been making efforts to try to stem the increasing flow of illegal migrants into their territories with more patrols, mass arrests and deportations. | |
Last week Venezuela's president, Nicolas Maduro, ordered a halt to all air and sea travel to the islands of Curacao, Bonaire and Aruba, in order to prevent smuggling of Venezuelan goods by what he called "mafias." |
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