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Economic Crisis pushes Venezuelan women to sex trade for survival

Venezuelan women are being driven into the sex trade in Colombia in order to survive, a Sky News investigation has found.

Scores of women were found touting for business on the streets of the border city of Cucuta.

In one club, the overwhelming majority of women working as prostitutes were Venezuelan.

In a brothel full of 60 women, there were just two Colombians, while the rest were Venezuelans.

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