A group of Venezuelans in their attempt to leave Chile, got lost at the border to reach Bolivia. Given this, Army personnel were deployed to rescue them, whose group, in which there were children between one and five years old, already showed signs of hypothermia.
A man who was one of the people rescued explained to T13 who wanted to transfer to Bolivia and then travel to Venezuela. “We lit a bonfire and started giving notice at around four in the morning until the Carabineros and the Army found us,” he detailed. In addition, he specified that they arrived in a vehicle to the area where they were charged around 40 thousand Chilean pesos per person to pass. “We were coming from Santiago and (the vehicle) we took it 12 kilometers before Iquique,” he said.
The channel’s journalist finally asked him about his reasons for leaving the country, to which the man admitted that it was due “mainly because there are many protests and many problems, so we don’t have the right papers.”
