Monday, October 24, 2016

Even trees are home for Venezuelans fleeing to Brazil


She's a 20-year-old Venezuelan, wants to be a translator and now, in a hammock hung from a tree that has become her home in the Brazilian city of Boa Vista, she still entertains dreams that, she said, will not be destroyed by "the failure of a revolution." "I'm not here because of politics. What brought me here was the failure of those politicians," Sairelis Rios told EFE. Together with her mother Keila and a dozen other Venezuelans, she lives in the street near the bus station in Boa Vista, a city that in recent months has received some 2,500 migrants from the neighboring country. More…

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