‘We’re Leaving Out Of Necessity’: Venezuelans Are The Top Asylum-Seekers In Spain

By Lucia Benavides

People try to salvage humanitarian aid after the truck carrying it was set ablaze on the Francisco de Paula Santander International Bridge between Colombia and Venezuela, on Feb. 23.

Spain has recorded more than 255,000 Venezuelans living in the country, with estimates even higher, as families flee the South American country’s problems of high crime and economic crisis.

(Image credit: Schneyder Mendoza/AFP/Getty Images)

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