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After just three weeks, Karla Morales realised her dreams of making it in Colombia were shattered.

As the COVID-19 crisis erupted, the 29-year-old Venezuelan travelled across the border with her husband and their youngest child in search of job opportunities so they could send money back to two other children they left behind in their economically crippled homeland. 

Returning Venezuelan migrants walk along a road outside Bogotá, Colombia. (Steven Grattan)