Colombian asylum applicant woman cleans her coriander harvest in a farming lot in a bordering Venezuela's state of Apure. Colombian asylum applicant Martha and her son Andres, who arrived in Venezuela with her family a year ago cleans her coriander harvest in a farming lot near the border town of Guasdualito, 900 km from Caracas, December 8, 2004. Thousands of Colombians have slipped across the border into Venezuela to escape the four-decade war in their country. More than 29,000 sought political asylum last year, according to the U.N. refugee agency UNHCR. Venezuela's government has registered nearly 4,000 applicants for refugee status, most of those in the poor south-western state of Apure and western Tachira. REUTERS/Jorge Silva