Throughout this week, the media has focused on the situation at El Dorado Airport. After the migration crisis at this air terminal became apparent and two young children, originally from Guinea, were found abandoned for days.
It was learned that nearly 200 passengers come to the country as a ‘stop’ every day, with Turkish Airlines flights departing from Turkey, in order to immigrate to the USA, before arriving in El Salvador or Nicaragua.
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According to figures from Immigration Colombia, 89 percent of irregular immigrants entering the country come from the Americas, 8.9 percent from Asia and 2 percent from Africa.
Additionally, the connection delays that caused many of these passengers to wait had caused health issues at the Airport, so they had to expand the ‘unaccepted’ room and condition shower and bathroom areas to add to the conditions. .
There are rumors that at least 70 African citizens are being held in El Dorado. They are waiting to be refunded by the airline they arrived in Bogota with as it has been deemed ‘not accepted’.
(Also: El Dorado Airport is being alerted due to the health and migration crisis; precautions are being taken).
However, it was learned that they were not the only ones who had to stay at El Dorado Airport for a few days due to living conditions and had to eat, wash and sleep there.
Finding no other options, a mother and her son, older adults, spent their nights in El Dorado for five monthsHe said he couldn’t find anywhere else to rest. RCN.
Economic necessity led to this Augusto, 70 and his mother, 90sleeping on airport chairs every night.
“The body position is not normal for rest.”. “We sit here, then our legs swell, the blood circulation is not the same, we have muscle aches, our spine hurts,” said Augusto, describing what it was like to sleep in the air terminal.
(In other matters: Attention: A second child was found abandoned at El Dorado Airport).
He also assured me that there were days that were harder than others: “We’ve had a lot of ups and downs, sometimes he gets desperate and says to me, ‘Get me out of this, please’.”
The 70-year-old man also said that they experienced periods of famine and that he even thought about taking his own life.
According to their routine, they arrive in El Dorado between 17.30 and 19.00, they are always in the same area, they sleep for a few hours until 6 in the morning. They then take to the streets of Bogota to ask for money or help in the Chapinero sector.
According to what Augusto told the above-mentioned media, his financial situation began to deteriorate after he carried out a business with some cargo vehicles that resulted in a loss of approximately 600 million pesos.
(Also: Spanish airport workers arrested; stole passengers’ belongings and sold them).
The anxious son assured them that they had already been in foster homes, but that the dynamics of this environment were difficult. His mother asked him not to leave her in the nursing home.
‘He asked for the opportunity to work before the RCN and assured him that he had experience of managing companies and developing economic projects in the legal field. “No one wants a 70-year-old man even if he has all the vitality,” he claimed.
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