THE GUARDIAN: Returning Venezuelans in squalid quarantine face uncertain future

When Jhoel Brito headed back to Venezuela last week he sought safe haven from an epoch-making global health emergency that has paralyzed scores of countries and claimed more than 120,000 lives. After losing his job as a butcher in Colombia, the 25-year-old Venezuelan migrant believed he would be safer waiting out the coronavirus storm back home. But the reality of his forced homecoming has proved a shock.

A Whatsapp photo shared with by one of the detained Venezuelan migrants in the border town of Ureña. Photograph: Handout

A Whatsapp photo shared with by one of the detained Venezuelan migrants in the border town of Ureña. Photograph: Handout