A dollar for sex: Venezuela's women tricked and trafficked

Women attempting to flee the country's economic collapse are in desperate straits, stranded at borders and forced into sex work, say NGOs

The family had nothing at home, says mother of six Luisa Hernandez, 30, from Zulia state, Venezuela. To see your children grow up without food, without anything, is unbearable.

Eating from rubbish bins to survive was no life, so we left. But, now with the pandemic, we are in limbo, we are stuck in Colombia, and hungry again. We have gone from one crisis to another."