In desperation, Venezuelan woman turn to prostitution to eat

[GatoGordo]

Venezuela's economic crisis is so bad that some women say they're turning to sex work to survive

Bill Bostock, Business Insider August 24, 2018

Venezuela is suffering from currency inflation, power cuts, and food shortages.
As a result, several Venezuelan women are taking up sex work in neighboring Colombia, a Sky News investigation found.
The investigation, broadcast Friday, found that nearly all the workers in a brothel in a Colombian city near the border were Venezuelans.
Women who spoke to Sky News said they had no other way of feeding their families as Venezuela's currency is so weak and supplies are so short.



Several Venezuelan women are taking up sex work in neighboring Colombia because the economic crisis in their country has made it impossible to make a living, a new investigation by Sky News found.

Cúcuta, a Colombian city near the border with Venezuela, is seeing an influx of Venezuelan women who are working in brothels to get by, the Sky News report says.

These women — and many others — have been forced out of Venezuela as the country is in economic ruin, experiencing hyperinflation, severe power cuts, and food and medicine shortages.

Sky News found that out of 60 women in a Cúcuta brothel, two were Colombians, while the rest were Venezuelans. The reporter, Alex Crawford, said one woman charged as little as $33 per client.

"Anything would be better," one woman said. "I do this because I have to do this."

Another woman told Crawford it was the only way she could get money to feed her family.

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https://www.yahoo.com/news/venezuela-apos-economic-crisis-bad-152731058.html

iViva la Revolucion Bolivariana! iViva 21st Century Socialism!

[Joe Chi Minh]

1. There's a lot of propaganda along those lines. I would

have major reservations about such reports. And your username doesm't inspire confidence, if it comes to that.

[GatoGordo]

2. And your news comes from where?

Joe Chi Minh?

[EX500rider]

3. Propaganda? Hardly

Tons of Venezuelan women working in Medellin and that's over 250 miles from the border. He also may have added a zero, no way the Cucuta sex workers are asking "as low as $33" in a small border town, I believe he meant $3, since the women ask for as low as $10 in Medellin on the street. One of the big tourists attractions in Medellin is the Plaza Botero and the next door Iglesia De La Veracruz which was is one of the oldest churches in Medellín, as it dates back originally to 1682, anyway the women hang out around and next to the church strangely enough for a Catholic country and are not shy to tell you the going rate.

[GatoGordo]

4. $3 is more than the monthly minimum wage in VZ

Asking $33 and getting $33 are two different things, especially considering the number of women flooding across to Colombia.

Heartbreaking.

[WestIndianArchie]

5. hahaha

[GatoGordo]

6. Prostituting to eat is funny to you?

[WestIndianArchie]

7. Emotions

Wow

[john657]

8. A question was asked of you,

why do you refuse to answer it?

[WestIndianArchie]

9. John

Is orange juice made from oranges or potatoes? I asked you a question.

[john657]

10. Yeah, just as I thought.

[WestIndianArchie]

11. You didn't answer?

[john657]

13. Not playing your game.

Bye bye.

[WestIndianArchie]

14. Ok bye

One more. Is a pig pork?

[WestIndianArchie]

12. Here another one

Is a elephant heavy???take your time

[GatoGordo]

15. Reported

[WestIndianArchie]

16. Blocked

[WestIndianArchie]

17. hmmm

I have reservations about theses reports too