Venezuelan asylum seekers try to make a new life in Spain
15 October 2018 |
2:37 pm
More than three million people have fled Venezuela as the country's economic and political crisis deepens. Most head for Columbia and Brazil but for those who make it to the EU, Spain is the top destination.
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