Interview with a Venezuelan Deserter
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5 min readMar 4, 2019
“Look. I have to get out of here. I’m ex-National Guard. And I’m terrified someone will find out. I can’t go back to Venezuela. They would imprison or shoot me. I came here for the protests, but I can’t return. I have to go to Bogota.”
We met María José Colisano* in one of the temporary refuges set up on the Colombian side of the Venezuelan border after the events of February 23rd. At the time…
