Venezuelan immigration to Colombia

The immigration of Venezuelan to Miami is a known phenomenon.  Mostly, it is for retiring, for menial service jobs or those who already do business with the US and prefer to do it from Miami than from Caracas even if it requires flying to Caracas on a regular basis.  But this article in Semana from Colombia details how the hard working, productive class of Venezuela is starting to migrate en masse to Colombia, to Venezuela's great loss of course.
Even though the migration movement is quite recent, 2004, it has already has had an important economic impact: oil companies founded and/or managed by the fired PDVSA people are reported to have contributed to an increase of 400,000 barrels of oil production in Colombia which is about to reach the 1 million mark, basically ensuring the basic energetic needs of Colombia.  Interestingly the 400,000 barrels increase in Colombia are comparable to the recent estimated drop in Venezuela's production.....

Apparently things are getting worse because since 2010 there has been an increase in emigration to Colombia: now Colombian authorities give residency paperwork to more than 200 Venezuelans a week, while in 2004 it was not even a handful!  Even noted historian-writer-poet  Arraiz Lucca is now teaching in Colombia, I suppose finding it impossible to work in historical research in a country busy destroying what it does not like in history when not outrageously rewriting it.  Personally I can say that my Caracas dentist has a son finishing a specialty in Bogota and planning to stay there, as apparently many are doing in the dental field.  Good dentists in Caracas are now booked solid for weeks in advance even if they charge outrageous prices as mine, but I suppose that in Bogota orthodontia will become soon quite affordable.....

Think about it, even at "only" 200 skilled workers or investors a week, that represents at least 10,000 productive to highly productive people going to Colombia every year.  To give you an idea, I do not think that my home town of San Felipe has 10,000 such people for its somewhat less than 200,000 inhabitants.

In other words, right now, every year, a medium sized Venezuelan state capital loses its professional and economic leadership, fully, every year, just to Colombia, leaving behind chavista politicians and Cuban trainees to pick up the slack.

Think about that for a minute, will you?