U.N. says more than 4 million people have left Venezuela

June 7, 20194:24 PM ET

Oscar Martínez, one of more than four million Venezuelans who have left their country, rests at a roadside stand near Cucuta, Colombia. Ryan Kellman/NPR

Venezuela has hit a worrying milestone. The United Nations says more than 4 million refugees and migrants have left the country, which is suffering from political chaos, food shortages and hyperinflation.

The U.N. has called this exodus the “largest in the recent history of Latin America and the Caribbean.”

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