Giving Compass' Take:

• This News Deeply podcast discusses the current displacement of millions happening throughout Latin America and what lessons can be learned from Venezuela's refugee crisis.

• What are some progressive approaches to displacement and migration? How can international aid organizations mobilize to make sure that the world's most vulnerable people are supplied with basic needs and a pathway to rebuild their lives?

• Read more about Venezuela's refugee crisis and how it might surpass the one in Syria.

The crisis in Venezuela has resulted in the exodus of at least 2 million people to neighboring countries. This mass migration, the largest in Latin America in recent history, is testing the region’s historical solidarity and openness to migration.

This openness grew out of a political response to earlier Latin American migration to the United States and Europe, explained Luisa Feline Freier, professor at the Universidad del Pacifico. Human rights groups then pushed governments to pursue progressive policies that matched that rhetoric: “So, there was a paradigm shift, not only in the discourse, but also in both migration and refugee laws across Latin America,” Freier said.

Listen to the podcast about Venezuela’s refugee crisis by Natalie Sikorski at News Deeply.