Thousands of people gather near the stadiums and other sports venues in Cucuta, a Colombian city on the border with Venezuela, where the majority of the more than 36,000 people displaced by the recent bloodshed are headed. "I have hope that we can return home, because it is very painful to leave everything behind," says Leticia Rivera, a mother of six who had to flee Tibu, the epicenter of the bloodshed. The number of people displaced in the last six days is unprecedented since the FARC laid down their arms, marking the country's most serious security crisis in over a decade. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES