ByJaime Rodríguez Oviedo and Laura Piraján Forero
Colombia is proving fertile ground for migrants from other Latin American countries to start a new life. Betsy, a Venezuelan woman who moved to Bogota to improve her quality of life, told Colombian street paper La Calle more.
Five years ago, Betsy* made the decision to leave her home city of Merida in north-west Venezuela for Bogota, Columbia. “When I realised that my wage would not even cover two dozen or so eggs, I told my mother that I could not do this anymore and I left,” she says.
She now works with her husband in a bakery that she co-owns with her brother-in-law. “I had come to Bogota on a trip because I had been told it was a very beautiful city, but I never imagined that I would end up living here. I believe that fate had been preparing me to arrive in the place where I would later make my new home.”
Le Calle is a street paper based in Bogota, Colombia, sold by people who have limited other ways of earning an income.