Migrants from Another World: Part 2

Routes through the Americas: One migrant’s journey from the hills of Nepal to the Colombian jungle

30 August 2020
ILLUSTRATION COURTESY CLIP AND OCCRP
ILLUSTRATION COURTESY CLIP AND OCCRP

The old school building in Puente América has seen better days. Once a place where the children of the tiny Colombian hamlet would come to learn their lessons, today it looks like little more than an abandoned ruin. 

But inside, its walls tell a different story. 

A reporter who visited in 2015 found the former classrooms covered with messages in Hindi, English, Nepali, Bengali and Arabic, written by migrants who had taken shelter there during their long journeys to North America. 

Deepak Adhikari  is a Kathmandu-based journalist.

Keywords: Migrants from Another World refugees migrants Nepal South Asia Latin America
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