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. >> reporter: the bridge in cucuta, columbia, is typically busy.ut look closely, and you'll see people carrying luggage, even family pets, signs of venezuelans displaced by the tises at home. why are you fleeing? ( speaking spanish ) you can't take it there anymore. ( speaking spanish ) dying of hunger. javier hernandez; his wife, maria elena; and their six-year-old son, david, have been on the road for three days now, joining the more than two million venezuelans who have fled to neighboring countries since 2015. the hernandezes have a message for president trump. el speaking spanish ) tell trump if he knocks down maduro, you'll build the wall and paint it for him. president nicolas maduro has a hssage for trump too. "i have broken political and diplomatic relations with the government of donald trump," he said. "i have not broken relations with the united states." but the u.s. has officially recognized opposition leader juan guaido as the nation's interim president. he wasted little time rallying the opposition this weekend. they're planning a ma
. >> reporter: the bridge in cucuta, columbia, is typically busy.ut look closely, and you'll see people carrying luggage, even family pets, signs of venezuelans displaced by the tises at home. why are you fleeing? ( speaking spanish ) you can't take it there anymore. ( speaking spanish ) dying of hunger. javier hernandez; his wife, maria elena; and their six-year-old son, david, have been on the road for three days now, joining the more than two million venezuelans who have fled to...
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many pass through the city of cucuta, on the border with colombia, from where aleem maqbool has senteport. through fields and streams around the border, we find desperate venezuelans crossing illegally into colombia. among them is yulet, a schoolteacher, here with her cousin, but upset at having had to leave her mother back home. translation: it's horrible. we're going through all of this just to get a bit of food, because there's nothing in venezuela. there's nothing. as it was, she told us, her monthly salary could onlyjust buy her a dozen eggs. the growing international condemnation of venezuela's president clearly isn't persuading people here their troubles will soon be over. well, many of those venezuelans who have come here tell us the only way they feel their president is going to step down is not as a direct result of the western pressure, but more something that will only happen when venezuela's powerful military finally turn their back on him. venezuela's military attache to washington, coloneljose luis silva, has abandoned maduro, and says he recognises the opposition lead
many pass through the city of cucuta, on the border with colombia, from where aleem maqbool has senteport. through fields and streams around the border, we find desperate venezuelans crossing illegally into colombia. among them is yulet, a schoolteacher, here with her cousin, but upset at having had to leave her mother back home. translation: it's horrible. we're going through all of this just to get a bit of food, because there's nothing in venezuela. there's nothing. as it was, she told us,...
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manuel bojorquez, cbs news, cÚcuta, colombia. >> glor: steve hartman is coming up next here.ison took one man to an unexpected place. >> glor: steve hartman meets some astonishing people "on the road," like the man who just began serving year one in leavenworth. >> i'm going to take you down to my old neighborhood. o> reporter: for 31-year-old jermaine wilson of leavenworth, kansas, going back to his childhood is a bad trip. >> yeah, i used to sell a lot of drugs out here. right there in apartment 4. >> reporter: he started using at age 11, was in juvenile detention by 15, and then was in hhe maximum security wing at lansing correctional by 21. and it was here that this convicted drug dealer came to the most important realization of his life. >> if i don't change, there are either going to be two things that will happen. i'm either going to spend the rest of my life in prison or dead in a casket. >> reporter: you could have never imagined the third option. >> no, not at all. ( laughs ) we want to welcome you to our city commission meeting. >> reporter: jermaine is now the may
manuel bojorquez, cbs news, cÚcuta, colombia. >> glor: steve hartman is coming up next here.ison took one man to an unexpected place. >> glor: steve hartman meets some astonishing people "on the road," like the man who just began serving year one in leavenworth. >> i'm going to take you down to my old neighborhood. o> reporter: for 31-year-old jermaine wilson of leavenworth, kansas, going back to his childhood is a bad trip. >> yeah, i used to sell a lot of...
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tal vez el punto más difícil para los caminantes venezolos que hacen el recorrido desde el cruce en cúcutaefugios donde les sirven comida, un lujo en venezuela imposible de alcanzar. >> todo vale como 12 millones de bolívares allá, vale millonada, el sueldo venezolano son 80 millones a la semana, que no alcanzan ni para comprar dos kilos de harina. y de paso tampoco la hay. tricia: ante la grave crisis económica, muchas han tenido que rebuscarse una forma de sobrevivir. la moneda venezolana ha perdido tanto valor que los billetes los utilizan para hacer carteras. para conseguir algo de dinero, las venezolanas venden hasta su cabello, que se utiliza para hacer extensiones. les pagan el equivalente a 35 dólares. al llegar a bucaramanga, centenares de venezolanos no tienen otra opción que pasar la noche en el primer parque que encuentran. ingrid: en el camión fuea cosa más fatal para mí, me dio una palidez, me puse mal, vómito, ay, no, horrible, eso fue horrible para llegar para acá. patricia: para poder bañarse, ingrid tuvo que pagar una casa particular. ¿dónde la van a pasar, aquí se van a
tal vez el punto más difícil para los caminantes venezolos que hacen el recorrido desde el cruce en cúcutaefugios donde les sirven comida, un lujo en venezuela imposible de alcanzar. >> todo vale como 12 millones de bolívares allá, vale millonada, el sueldo venezolano son 80 millones a la semana, que no alcanzan ni para comprar dos kilos de harina. y de paso tampoco la hay. tricia: ante la grave crisis económica, muchas han tenido que rebuscarse una forma de sobrevivir. la moneda...