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‘Their Country Is Being Invaded’: Exodus of Venezuelans Overwhelms Northern Brazil
https://www.nytimes.com/ ^ | 4/28/17 | ERNESTO LONDOÑO

Posted on 04/28/2018 1:08:36 PM PDT by BBell

PACARAIMA, Brazil — Hundreds turn up each day, many arriving penniless and gaunt as they pass a tattered flag that signals they have reached the border.

Once they cross, many cram into public parks and plazas teeming with makeshift homeless shelters, raising concerns about drugs and crime. The lucky ones sleep in tents and line up for meals provided by soldiers — pregnant women, the disabled and families with young children are often given priority. The less fortunate huddle under tarps that crumple during rainstorms.

The scenes are reminiscent of the waves of desperate migrants who have escaped the wars in Syria and Afghanistan, spurring a backlash in Europe. Yet this is happening in Brazil, where a relentless tide of people fleeing the deepening economic crisis in Venezuela has begun to test the region’s tolerance for immigrants.

This month, the governor of the northern Brazilian state of Roraima sued the federal government, demanding that it close the border with Venezuela and provide additional money for her overburdened education and health systems.

“We’re very fearful this may lead to an economic and social destabilization in our state,” said the governor, Suely Campos. “I’m looking after the needs of Venezuelans to the detriment of Brazilians.”

Continue reading the main story The tens of thousands of Venezuelans who have found refuge in Brazil in recent years are walking proof of a worsening humanitarian crisis that their government claims does not exist.

They also constitute an exodus that is straining the region’s largely generous and permissive immigration policies. Earlier this month, Trinidad deported more than 80 Venezuelan asylum seekers. In Colombian and Brazilian border communities, local residents have attacked Venezuelans in camps.

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TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: brazil; cuba; exodus; nicaragua; russia; venezuela; venezuelans
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Nobody here is surprised by the fruits of socialism.

I was surprised by the numbers. 5,000 a day earlier this year. Maybe Sean Penn can house them.

1 posted on 04/28/2018 1:08:36 PM PDT by BBell
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Sounds like they've finished eating the zoo animals.
2 posted on 04/28/2018 1:12:58 PM PDT by snarkpup (Fake news is one-half of the problem. Fake education is the other half.)
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To: BBell

The New York Times won a Pulitzer for covering up Communist starvation in the Soviet Union. So now they’re changing their tune? No Pulitzer for not toeing the Party line, Comrades.


3 posted on 04/28/2018 1:13:57 PM PDT by \/\/ayne (I regret that I have but one subscription cancellation notice to give to my local newspaper.)
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To: BBell
This month, the governor of the northern Brazilian state of Roraima sued the federal government, demanding that it close the border with Venezuela and provide additional money for her overburdened education and health systems. “We’re very fearful this may lead to an economic and social destabilization in our state,” said the governor, Suely Campos. “I’m looking after the needs of Venezuelans to the detriment of Brazilians.”

Gee, when Trump tries to do the same thing here, he gets called a "racist".

4 posted on 04/28/2018 1:16:16 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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Too bad we cant send the moronials to berniezuela


5 posted on 04/28/2018 1:16:31 PM PDT by dsrtsage (For Leftists, World History starts every day at breakfast)
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To: BBell

If the surrounding countries seriously want to effect a change of policy, they need to get rid of Maduro by any means necessary. Nothing good can come of his continued lack of leadership. That should all be made clear by now.


6 posted on 04/28/2018 1:17:06 PM PDT by lee martell
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The problem that threatens the U.S. into becoming like Venezuela, is not really socialists like Bernie Sanders. It's the uninformed masses who would vote him into power.
7 posted on 04/28/2018 1:17:21 PM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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To: BBell

This is what bernie and democrats want for the Canada — the USA being the sending country.


8 posted on 04/28/2018 1:17:56 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (robert mueller is an unguided missile)
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To: dfwgator

Ironically, these Venezuelans are true refugees from the opression of leftist progressive tyranny


9 posted on 04/28/2018 1:20:09 PM PDT by rdcbn
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So now they’re changing their tune?

I guess folks grew tired of ready the same drivel over and over from a left wing bird cage liner.

10 posted on 04/28/2018 1:32:02 PM PDT by BBell (calm down and eat your sandwiches)
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To: BBell

Thank you, Obama.


11 posted on 04/28/2018 1:38:49 PM PDT by kaehurowing
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To: BBell

This is all orchestrated by rich, greedy, Trump-loving capitalist pigs!
Viva la Socialism!


12 posted on 04/28/2018 1:44:09 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (Democracy: The cliff's edge of Marxism)
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To: dfwgator
This is so crazy. Venezuela is loaded with all kinds of resources, not just oil. They used to have a high level of literacy and skills, a good workforce. Ought to be a wealthy country.

So in the interests of "fairness," the govt. got majorly into "redistribution," appropriations of property, nationalization of businesses, price controls that discourage private sector investment and production. Killed the economy.

They don't need redistribution. They need revolution.

13 posted on 04/28/2018 1:45:04 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o (What people will submit to, equals the exact measure of injustice which will be imposed upon them.)
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To: snarkpup

At some point the regime has to be overthrown by intl community
The government restarted with constitution.
Safeguards put in of civilian control
Those in power will not give up if they have all guns
Restore the nation to a productive safe ecenimic model for industry innovation entrepreneurs and tourism


14 posted on 04/28/2018 1:46:43 PM PDT by Truthoverpower (The guvmint you get is the Trump winning express !)
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To: BBell

How many is Sean Penn and his Hollywood buddies taking in?? Wasn’t Hollywood in love with the creator of this utopia?


15 posted on 04/28/2018 1:46:48 PM PDT by eyeamok
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At the General Hospital of Roraima, the director, Samir Xuad, says the daily patient population has surged from 400 per day to 1,000 over the past couple of years.

That requires working his employees so hard that some of them end up getting sick, too, said Mr. Xuad, adding that he had lost more than 20 pounds from the stress. Medical supplies as basic as syringes and gloves have run out, he said, and during particularly busy periods, patient gurneys line up in hallways.

“We try to make magic,” he said. “But it’s difficult.”

Outside of work, he said, residents of Boa Vista have become fearful of crime and wary of the mobs of aggressive window washers who approach drivers at stop lights.

“Roraima was a place where you could sleep with your door open at night,” he said. “That is no longer the case.”

Wow! Kind of sounds like what happened here due to our invasion from the South.


16 posted on 04/28/2018 1:48:01 PM PDT by sheana
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To: Truthoverpower

These dictator types in the end
Especially a real nut like Kim
Are scared little sissies in the end
A little pressure and threat of force from big boys and it’s OVER
you know those mysogynistic Mullahz are scared in Persia
THERE THERES 70 million plus internet connected ready to roll on em
AND be nice about it
That’s the thing
G*d fearing souls are VERY fair


17 posted on 04/28/2018 1:50:46 PM PDT by Truthoverpower (The guvmint you get is the Trump winning express !)
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To: sheana

Brazil. So much potential. Perfect destination for your tired, your poor. Can Brazil be more like the US?


18 posted on 04/28/2018 1:51:57 PM PDT by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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To: BBell

Take them all to the firm of Penn, Hawkin, Kerry and Sanders for re-education and re-working.


19 posted on 04/28/2018 2:09:14 PM PDT by keving (We the government)
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They should be quizzed at the border on their opinion of socialism, and the ones that think it’s still pretty cool but Maduro just wasn’t doing it right, be humanely euthanized.


20 posted on 04/28/2018 2:11:33 PM PDT by SpaceBar
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