VICE NEWS: Millions of Venezuelan Migrants Are Trapped Between COVID and a Hostile Homeland

Jose Manuel Lovera is sleeping rough on the streets of the small town of Huaquillas in Ecuador. He didn’t envision his migration would end like this.

The effects of the coronavirus pandemic for Venezuelan migrants in the region has been devastating. Many who left their troubled homeland now feel that they have nowhere to go, and face hostility both at home and abroad.

Lovera, who decided to return to Venezuela after leaving, soon regretted it.