3,000 people displaced by clashes on the Venezuela-Colombia border
Displacement / IDP
How the score is calculated
The score starts at 8. It adds points from recorded affected, deaths, displaced and casualty counts, plus terms found in the story title, event type or status. For each count, only its highest matching band is used.
- Affected people
- 1–999: +5 · 1,000–9,999: +12 · 10,000–99,999: +20 · 100,000–999,999: +28 · 1 million+: +35
- Deaths
- 1–9: +8 · 10–99: +14 · 100–999: +22 · 1,000+: +30
- Displaced people
- 1–9,999: +6 · 10,000–99,999: +12 · 100,000+: +18
- Casualties
- 100 or more: +8
- Story wording
- +10 for terms such as catastrophe, famine, war, conflict, major earthquake, mass casualty or critical. Otherwise, +5 for active, ongoing, emergency, outbreak, cyclone or hurricane.
Score bands: Watch 0–24 · Moderate 25–49 · High 50–74 · Critical 75–100. Scores are capped at 100. Missing or unparseable figures add no points.
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Historical record
Status: CLOSED · Imported 2026-10-07
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In brief
- What happenedMore than 3,000 people have been displaced by heavy clashes between Colombian non-state armed groups and the Venezuelan army in La Victoria and rural surroundings in Venezuela.
- How many affectedAffected persons: 3,000 · Displaced persons: 3,000
- What help is neededDisplaced communities are fleeing into Colombia, many in need of aid.
What changed
First retained snapshot
No earlier verified snapshot is present in the recovered dataset. This record remains available as the historical baseline.
Situation
More than 3,000 people have been displaced by heavy clashes between Colombian non-state armed groups and the Venezuelan army in La Victoria and rural surroundings in Venezuela. Displaced communities are fleeing into Colombia, many in need of aid. “It was reported that families continue to flee across the border in search of safety as the violence in the area has not completely stopped. People we have spoken with are terrified and fear for their lives,” said Dominika Arseniuk, the Norwegian Refugee Council’s (NRC) Country Director in Colombia. A Venezuelan woman who fled to Canciones town in Colombia told NRC; “Armed men who arrived in our town and started shouting that we had 30 minutes to flee. We walked for two hours and crossed the river that divides Venezuela and Colombia. We now sleep on the floor without mattresses. Since Sunday we have only had enough food to eat once a day.” The Colombian government is responding to the influx of displaced people, but its resources are limited and it is severely overstretched. The country already hosts 1.7 million Venezuelan migrants and refugees who have fled the crisis in Venezuela. There are insufficient tents and food for the refugees who have arrived, with more people expected in the coming days to Arauca, Colombia. NRC teams are on the ground assessing the needs of the population to scale up its response. "We ask the international community to step in and support the Colombia government responding to the crisis,” said Arseniuk.
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WorldsAid verification
A WorldsAid editor reviewed this record against 1 attributed source, cleaned feed formatting and checked the crisis, place and reporting date. 2 human-impact figures were separated from the narrative and dated where the source allowed. Earlier observations remain in the evidence history instead of being silently overwritten.
Verified figures
- Affected persons
- 3,000 retained at 2021-03-26
- Displaced persons
- 3,000 retained at 2021-03-26
What we knew when
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- Last verification represented by this immutable snapshot.
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Provenance
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