Colombian fans in Argentina struggle to return amid pandemic

Fans of Independiente de Medellin soccer club shout to journalists from a hotel in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Tuesday, April 14, 2020. The fans who traveled to Buenos Aires in March to cheer their team in a Copa Libertadores match, demand their country rescue them. They tried to exit through the Bolivian border but ended at a hotel in the Argentine capital, in a mandatory quarantine amid the new coronavirus pandemic. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

The plan of 15 soccer-crazy fans of Colombia’s Independiente Medellín was very simple. They wanted to travel to Buenos Aires to watch their team face Boca Juniors in the historic La Bombonera stadium in a Copa Libertadores group stage match.

And they did that.