Romero taking an order to a Rappi customer on his bicycle in Bogota, Colombia. In a 15-hour workday Romero hopes to make around US$15, the equivalent of Venezuela's monthly minimum wage but barely enough to get by in costlier Colombia.
BOGOTA, Colombia: It’s six in the morning and Samuel Romero is already pulling his bicycle out of a small garage.
The 21-year-old Venezuelan migrant turns on his phone and logs on to Rappi, an app through which freelance cyclists get paid to make deliveries around Bogota, a traffic-clogged city of 8 million. He checks his brakes and rides into the chilly streets. It’s the beginning of a 15-hour workday, in which Romero is hoping he can make around US$15 (RM62) – the equivalent of Venezuela’s monthly minimum wage but barely enough to get by in costlier Colombia.
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