Venezuelan migrants flee economic crisis to land in Colombian conflict zone Every day, hundreds of Venezuelans cross the Arauca river into Colombia in search of a better life, but first they must run a gauntlet of rebels, drug runners and landmines, as remote Arauca department on Colombia's border with Venezuela is among the country's most crime-plagued and at the mercy of both cocaine smugglers and one of the few rebel groups still fighting the government in the capital Bogota.\\n IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES