Police stations in Venezuela are experiencing extraordinary mobility, resignations, leave requests and defections have multiplied in recent months. After a brief recovery in 2022, the economic crisis has now worsened, prompting police officers to leave the country, and because of their training, they may be in better physical shape than other migrants trying to cross the dangerous “Darin”, the jungle located between Colombia and Panama.
In 2023 alone, hundreds of thousands of Venezuelan migrants tried to cross this jungle, and one of those who succeeded was Omer Rincon, who worked in the Caracas police, and he started the journey in mid-July, and only last week he arrived in the United States through Arizona, and in this Rincon says: “I waited more than a month for my superiors to approve my vacation, and I sold my motorcycle, withdrew my savings and came”.
Rincon brought canned goods, cakes and some clothes, boarded boats, canoes and buses, walked the rough roads at night, evading the immigration authorities of the most complicated countries on the way north, and after arriving in the capital of Mexico he made an appointment to apply for admission through the mobile application “CBP one”, which was launched by the US government earlier this year, in an attempt to control the huge flow of migrants who have accumulated on the southern border.
Most of the money that Rincon took with him was spent on transportation costs, the fare of smugglers and guides to guide him north, and after a long series of stops including Caracas, Medellin, the jungles of the “Darien” jungle, Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, Guatemala, Mexico City, Arizona, and finally New York; he will soon travel to Atlanta, where a job awaits him.
