But, now with the pandemic, we are in limbo, we are stuck in Colombia , and hungry again. We have gone from one crisis to another. An estimated 4. And as refugees, it is women who have been the most vulnerable to labour and sexual exploitation, trafficking and violence. The backbone working class marched out of Venezuela largely on foot, their worldly possessions stuffed into black bin liners or rolled behind them in suitcases, travelling along arterial roads and highways to cross the borders — legally and illegally — into countries now shouldering the crisis. Coronavirus exacerbated the problem of illegal entry and forced los caminante s the walkers to take to informal trail roads, or trochas , as lockdowns across South America closed borders.

It's too much pressure. It really changed my sex life," says Francisco Araujo, a year-old Venezuelan civil engineer. They have completely disappeared from the shops here. Venezuela is one of the unsafest countries in the world, with one of the weakest economies. Thanks to a potent mix of hyperinflation, intense price and currency controls, disappointing oil revenue and years of terrible governmental decision making, we're also blessed with the fact that very normal goods are extremely scarce here.

Netherlands Antilles. E-mail: faas1 attglobal. This is what is referred to as "the sexual network theory": people are connected by their sexual contacts, and therefore form contact-patterns of sexual networks. The study indicated wide spread acceptability of this barrier method by all the female populations in the project, as an effective instrument in the fight against HIV and other sexual transmitted diseases. Inflation and devaluation have caused companies to lay off employees, and as a result, more women are being forced to turn to prostitution as a means of earning a living, especially when educational opportunity is low and alternative employment scarce 1.