Venezuela’s indigenous lost tribe
Auxiliano Zapata may be a Warao chief but
after fleeing chaotic Venezuela for neighbouring Brazil his people are a lost
tribe, wondering if they will ever settle in their beloved Orinoco river delta
again. The Warao, who number around 20,000 and usually alternate between towns
and traditional rural areas in Venezuela’s northern Orinoco River region, were
among the first to flee to Brazil from the economic near-collapse and political
unrest under hard-leftist President Nicolas Maduro. “There was no medicine, no
food, no transport, nothing. Everything became too expensive. To get here I had
to sell everything. I had a television, a cellphone, a fridge,” said Zapata,
43, at the Pintolandia refugee camp in Boa Vista, the capital of Brazil’s
frontier state of Roraima. More…
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