How Venezuelan Refugees Are Surviving in Brazil
How Venezuelan Refugees Are Surviving in Brazil
AQ’s columnist visited the Brazil-Venezuela border region, and found both strains and a desire to help.
For most Brazilians, the disaster unfolding in neighboring Venezuela is little more than another passing topic on the evening news. The daily protests in Caracas are more than 2,500 miles away from São Paulo or Rio de Janeiro, cultural ties between the two countries are limited, and the current political and economic crisis in Brazil reduces the airtime reserved for discussing foreign affairs even more than usual.
Not so in the Brazilian state of Roraima and its capital Boa Vista, the country’s only state capital north of the equator, where Venezuelans fleeing violence, poverty or...
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