Exodus: A Venezuelan family recounts their desperate journey On foot, by bus, on the backs of juddering trucks, like tens of thousands of others, they slogged for days along the Pan-American highway through Colombia and Ecuador. The Mendoza Landinez family's goal was to reach Peru, a sanctuary of sorts for a desperate Venezuelan family, but they had the additional pressure of a deadline: to enter Peru before new rules required them to produce a passport. SOUNDBITES**COMPLETES VID1228384_EN**