{"id":56536,"date":"2018-01-11T06:03:58","date_gmt":"2018-01-11T06:03:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=56536"},"modified":"2018-01-11T06:03:58","modified_gmt":"2018-01-11T06:03:58","slug":"four-venezuelans-die-on-boat-trip-made-despite-travel-ban-to-curacao","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/world-news\/four-venezuelans-die-on-boat-trip-made-despite-travel-ban-to-curacao.html","title":{"rendered":"Four Venezuelans die on boat trip made despite travel ban to Curacao"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Four Venezuelans die on boat trip made despite travel ban to Curacao<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Four Venezuelans die on boat trip made despite travel ban to Curacao:- Four Venezuelans attempting to reach the Dutch Antilles island of Curacao despite a travel ban by Caracas, died when their boat broke apart, authorities and family members of the passengers said on Wednesday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Citizens of crisis-stricken Venezuelan routinely travel to the more prosperous Curacao in search of work or staple products that are unavailable amid the collapse of Venezuela\u2019s socialist economic system.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">President Nicolas Maduro last week ordered a halt to all air and sea travel to the islands of Curacao, Bonaire and Aruba, in order to prevent smuggling of Venezuelan goods by what he called \u201cmafias.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Two women and two men were \u201cfound on the beach this morning\u201d Reginald Huggins of the Curacao police told local media.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">\u201cThis was not a crime, they were not murdered.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">The boat left from the western coast of Venezuela but broke apart several miles before reaching Curacao, said a Venezuelan family member of one of the passengers on board who survived.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">\u201cAn enormous wave broke the boat in two &#8211; in fact it was carrying too many passengers,\u201d said the family member, who asked not to be identified.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Curacao\u2019s government criticized the travel ban, saying in a statement that the \u201cunilateral closure of the border with Venezuela does not fit with the search for better relations with our neighbor.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Venezuela\u2019s heavy subsidies for consumer goods, most notably fuel, have for years fueled contraband to neighboring nations. 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