- Venezuela is suffering with currency inflation, power cuts, earthquakes, and food shortages.
- This is forcing many Venezuelan women to take up sex work in neighbouring Colombia.
- A Sky News investigation broadcast Friday found that 96% of a brothel's workers in Colombia were Venezuelan.
- They have no other way of feeding their families as the currency is so weak and supplies so short.
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Venezuela's economic crisis is so bad that some women say they're turning to sex work to survive
Sky News report found that as many as 96% of sex workers in a Colombian border town brothel were Venezuelans fleeing the country's economic turmoil. They told reporter Alex Crawford that they have no visas, so work illegally to make ends meet.
Venezuelan woman are taking up sex work in neighboring Colombia because the economic crisis in their country has made it impossible to make a living, according to a new investigation.
These women, and many others, have been forced out as the country is in economic ruin, hyperinflation, has severe power cuts, and food and medicine shortages.
Reporter Alex Crawford said people in
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