00:00Why did I come from Venezuela? Because I had a lot of suffering.
00:08But when I came out of there, I came to look for a goal,
00:12to look for a better future for my children.
00:19My mother disappeared for four years.
00:21Here, adapting to this has cost us a lot.
00:32I am a Venezuelan immigrant.
00:35I have about three years here in Uribe, La Guajira, Colombia.
00:40I will tell you a little bit about my life.
00:43I was 12 years old when my mother disappeared.
00:45I have four siblings, four girls and a male.
00:51My mother, about things in Venezuela,
00:55she traveled to Rihuacha.
00:58She was going to work here in Colombia.
01:01She was going to visit us and everything else.
01:03From one day to another, she no longer returned.
01:06They have been passed four years
01:07and we don't know if she is alive or dead.
01:09My mother is the one who has been born with us.
01:14I am proud of her because my mother has been able to defend
01:17during these four years here in Colombia, here in La Guajira.
01:22That is what I can tell you about my family.
01:25In terms of if I want to go back to my country, yes.
01:28Because I have four, three years here in Uribe
01:33and I have not adapted as it is.
01:36It is still difficult to me to get up and see
01:40that I am in a place where I did not live, where I did not live.
01:43I have been raised, so sometimes we get to talk about
01:47and if Venezuela is composed,
01:49we are back to Venezuela again.
01:52Here in Nailu, there is also a insecurity
01:56that we have because in the neighborhood of Nailu,
01:58children come out of the night,
02:00girls come out of the night and there is no laundry.
02:04As you can see, there is no laundry.
02:05and we have to do the needs in the mountain, we have to walk.
02:10And one of those insecurities is that every time,
02:14last year, every time we went to the mountain,
02:18we accused a man with a tattoo.
02:22Everyone who see him recognize him.
02:24He did a lot of damage, because many of the young and children,
02:29he was accused of both of the girls and of the children,
02:31and also of the older women.
02:32They were already older.
02:33He was accused of them, they were persecuted,
02:35and after doing what they were doing, they disappeared.
02:38I come from Venezuela.
02:40I'm an immigrant.
02:42I'm from Maracaibo, the state of Zulia.
02:45I arrived here in Uribe.
02:48And here, in the 3rd of April, I have 3 years of living here.
02:58There are discriminations.
03:00It's like to say,
03:01today, I ask God, thank you very much,
03:05I pay the solid income with my PEN,
03:08and today they didn't want me to take my certificate.
03:11They told me that the Venezuelans don't pay.
03:13They pay.
03:13And every time that a Venezuelan is sick,
03:19or they hurt their head,
03:20or they have an accident,
03:22they go to emergency,
03:23and in emergency they reject that case.
03:25For us to be Venezuelans,
03:28for not having Colombian documents
03:30and for not having money to pay for us to leave.
03:33We have two Venezuelans died.
03:36Here, when a Venezuelan dies,
03:39it's very difficult.
03:40First, because they don't help them,
03:42because they don't have Colombian cédula.
03:44I came to help my son.
03:48My son has a progreso rectal.
03:50And when I arrived here,
03:52when I was 15 days, I couldn't do it,
03:54because I didn't have Colombian cédula.
04:19We were escaping, escaping, escaping,
04:22until we reached the terminal,
04:24where they give us the bad news,
04:27that they tell us,
04:28you, the migrants,
04:30they don't have space here.
04:32Normally, I had come here
04:33because I couldn't get anything there,
04:36but I was going to war there again.
04:38Two years ago, I had a accident
04:40in the school transport.
04:43The transport was safe.
04:45With the safety of the transport,
04:46they received us,
04:47they put an injection to each one
04:49for the pain
04:50and they returned again to our homes.
04:53and that it was just the thing that I didn't have.
05:26Paraguachón is a population that has always lived with the problems that the neighboring country has, like Venezuela.
05:39If Venezuela is fine, the border is fine, Paraguachón is fine,
05:42because we depend on the people that come from there, the tourists that come from there.
05:47Another thing I tell you is that the villages are also increased a lot.
05:54There are two trochas, the 80 and the Cortica.
05:59In the same way, the indigenous people have here, by their customs,
06:04that any person can come from there.
06:07They paid $20,000. Here, more on, I paid $10,000.
06:13And here, almost here, I paid $10,000.
06:16What is $45,000?
06:19To be able to go?
06:20To be able to go.
06:21To be able to go in Venezuela.
06:22And who would you have to go?
06:25To the same police.
06:26It's not free to go.
06:29We had at the beginning of the border, some quite difficult moments,
06:34because some groups were fought in the territories,
06:37at the limit of the law.
06:39We also felt a little bit of the national government,
06:41because Paraguachón, fuera de ser frontera,
06:47is a very main cojoegimiento on the North coast,
06:50because it's the only legal passage that the Guajira has.
06:56So, we see the descuido of the national government
07:01that doesn't give to the cojoegimiento
07:05everything that they have to give.
07:07Before, we had a net of Colombian population.
07:12Today, many Colombians have migrated from this native population
07:17and have gone to other places.
07:19So, there are some that have gone to Maicá,
07:22others to Santa Marta,
07:23to different places on the coast,
07:25and the population that we have right now,
07:29the 70%, we could say,
07:32are migrants,
07:34or Colombians, or tornados.
08:08I am here, in the refuge of Unanur.
08:14I am grateful, because they have welcomed us,
08:18they have received very well,
08:20they have attended very well,
08:21they are very educated people.
08:25and, well, here I am,
08:26waiting to come back to my life again.
08:32I am living here in this land,
08:33the 14th,
08:36the 14th,
08:36as I can see here,
08:38I live humildemente.
08:39This is my land, go ahead.
08:42Here I live.
08:44Here I live humildemente.
08:47And, well,
08:48I am grateful to the staff here.
08:50I live in the same economic situation of the country.
08:55I was not able to pay for food.
08:58My children were starving.
09:01My little son,
09:02John Angel,
09:03he is in risk of nutrition.
09:06He has 9 years,
09:08he only weighs 18 kilos.
09:10And, well,
09:11that's what I'm worried about.
09:12Here I came to Cartagena,
09:14India.
09:15But,
09:15at the end,
09:17the last thing was,
09:18with the pandemic,
09:19a bit more rough,
09:21and I decided to go out of Cartagena.
09:22So,
09:25I saw that in Venezuela
09:26they took the roof to my house,
09:29the windows,
09:30the doors,
09:32I mean,
09:33my house is finished.
09:37So,
09:38I came here to refuge,
09:39here,
09:40looking for a chance.
09:42They are taking the permission of permanence.
09:44And,
09:45with that,
09:45I think I can find a better job.
09:49To be far away from my family,
09:51it has been painful,
09:54because I had never come out of Venezuela
09:57with this situation.
10:04So,
10:26let's go.
10:31Let's go.
10:33let's go.
10:34Let's go.
10:34Let's go.
10:35Let's go.
10:35I want the music to the city of Francia's house,
10:37I don't know.
10:38I can't hear that.
10:39I have a few hours
10:39that I can hear.
10:42I got here
10:44because of my mother.
10:46She decided to leave me.
10:50So,
10:50I didn't want to say
10:51I was thinking
10:52about my mother's dead.
10:56My daughter died in Venezuela. When I was 5 months old, she presented a pneumonia picture.
11:06I left the pneumonia picture, my dad gave me the back and decided to look for medical care.
11:14I didn't know where they were because they said they had COVID.
11:20My brothers and sisters of my dad, they made a hospital in a university hospital in Venezuela, in Maracaibo.
11:33They came in and she had a defect in my arm, she had to be a specialist,
11:43to see if it was in operation, treatment, therapy.
11:48And my daughter, in a sudden, she gave me the arm and told me that it was convulsions.
11:56My daughter gave me three Cs of Diazepam and three Epamin.
12:01She had to do it until December 6th, she died.
12:04And then my mother decided to migrate to here.
12:09And here I stayed until I had my other son.
12:12And here I stayed for the moment.
12:15Well, I came here because of the children.
12:17I found a cup.
12:21I found a cup here.
12:24This is a village.
12:27This is very beautiful.
12:29How they treat themselves well.
12:31If they support themselves.
12:32They help themselves with their things.
12:35They help us, like the tías said.
12:39They help us with drugs.
12:42They say they have to go to the hospital.
12:44They help us.
12:53They help us.
12:58They help us with their children.
13:03They help us with their children.
13:03But here, we're trying to adapt our parents.
13:05It has often cost us a lot.
13:06The thing was, in a decade.
13:07After the time we went to the camp, I told them,
13:10to their children to their children.
13:11I think I will.
13:12Because I don't限 them anymore.
13:15I get hurt.
13:16I felt bad for them.
13:17This is why the daughter told me.
13:19The daughter said, no, Cacilda.
13:21So the lady said, think about the things you're going to do
13:24to bring your children to there.
13:26What's going to be the life of those children there?
13:29I would like to return some day to my country
13:35to share with my family again.
13:39I would like to return some day because my children don't know their tías.
13:45I would like to have a title in my hands with my children.
13:56That's what I would like to imagine in 10 years.
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