When you go to someone else’s house, you need to adapt to their way of life.”

Many in the city also fear the desperate Venezuelans will undercut them in the local job market. Some 1.6 million Venezuelans have fled the country since 2015 as four years of recession and hyperinflation the International Monetary Fund predicts will reach one million percent this year have left large swathes of the population in poverty. "The Spanish government also has used its good offices within the framework of the European Union, and today ... in Brussels approval was given for 35 million euros that the (EU) will place at the disposal of the Latin American region to deal with this immigration crisis," said Sanchez in Bogota after meeting with Colombian President Ivan Duque. The United States has given nearly $31 million in aid for Venezuelans since fiscal year 2017, as well as $18.5 million for Colombia, home to more Venezuelan migrants than any other country, the U.S. State Department has said.
The European Union announces an aid package of €35 million ($40.6 million) for Venezuelans, both inside the country and for those displaced in neighbouring countries.