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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

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