Ricardo Hausmann

"People who love sausage and people who believe in justice should never watch either of them being made." So said Otto von Bismarck, the great German statesman of the 19th century, according to legend.

The day after that dreadful night of the failed coup in Turkey, tens of thousands of Venezuelans were crossing the Colombian border. The weekend of July 16-17 witnessed around 135,000 Venezuelans making the trip. They walked there, and they walked back. Why you may wonder?