Venezuelan citizens cross the Simon Bolivar international bridge from San Antonio del Tachira in Venezuela to the Norte de Santander province of Colombia.

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In search of food, Yackeisy Uzcategui left Venezuela in 2017 with her husband and four children for Colombia. But hunger has followed them to the slum where they settled on the outskirts of Cucuta, near the Venezuelan border.

"If we have no work, we have no food," Uzcategui told News Deeply. "Today we ate duck bones with our rice and beans. We asked our neighbor for them, we said it was for th