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La Paz (Bolivia), Sep 23 (EFE).- Helen's family travelled a distance of more than 2,500 kilometres to arrive in Bolivia from Venezuela. Now they have to deal not only with the altitude and cold weather of La Paz but also with xenophobia. FOOTAGE OF VENEZUELAN MIGRANTS LIVING IN LA PAZ. SOUNDBITES OF:-HELEN:"My mum, my brother and my children. We are here fighting every day. There are good people and also bad people who say awful things to us. They say 'go back to your country', 'what are you doing here?'. If we are here it is not because we want it or we are happy here but because we have the need forces us. Many people said awful things to us, but some very nice people, who support us, help us. If someone asks if I want to wash, I'll wash. If someone asks if I want to cook, I'll cook. If I have to sell sweets, I'll sell them. We live like this."-ANA LLANCO, MEMBER OF MUNASIM KULLAKITA FOUNDATION:"We aim to help these children and families to become asylum seekers after an initial assessment since each family has a different story. In that context, some people become asylum seekers. So we help them, since they are in a vulnerable situation, to go to the appropriate authorities to have that provisional document so they have a regular situation in Bolivia and access to rights.""In this space, there are 30 families living and out of those 30 we focus our work in women, children and teenagers. In our mobile classrooms, there are have 20 children and 7 teenagers."
Images outside the Naval Hospital in Guayaquil where former Ecuadorian Vice President Jorge Glas was hospitalized after refusing to eat in prison. Glas, who had been granted political asylum at the Mexican Embassy in Quito, was arrested by Ecuadorian police Friday over corruption charges in a raid on the embassy that sparked a wave of international criticism. IMAGES
General Laura Richardson, commander of the US Southern Command (SOUTHCOM), arrives at the Carondelet Palace in Quito, Ecuador. A US government delegation, led by Special Presidential Advisor for the Americas to Joe Biden's administration, Christopher Dodd, is beginning a three-day visit to discuss plans for security cooperation between the two countries. IMAGES
Images published by Ecuador's Armed Forces showing military and police officers entering a prison in the penitentiary complex of Guayaquil, the nerve center of the government's war on drug gangs. IMAGES
Images published by Ecuador's Armed Forces showing hundreds of military and police officers entering a prison in the penitentiary complex of Guayaquil. Security forces "carry out a new intervention in the Centro de Privación de Libertad #Guayas, controlling the external and internal perimeter of the penitentiary center," the Armed Forces announces on X. IMAGES
At a press conference in Nairobi, Kenya, the head of the UN's refugee agency Filippo Grandi says, "Today we pass the mark of half a million refugees from Sudan, following the beginning of the conflict." He also says that the number of people now internally displaced in the conflict torn nation is now at two million. SOUNDBITE
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