Thousands of Venezuelans across the borders of neighboring countries in refugee conditions

[Pueblofuerte]

Brazil threatens to quit the new UN migration pact.
'The strain is too much': Venezuelan exodus has Brazil at breaking point - The Guardian

While international treaties oblige Brazil to keep the border open, anti-immigrant rhetoric from president-elect Jair Bolsonaro, who once described refugees as “scum of the earth”, has added to a mood of uncertainty at the border.

[recycled]

I am guessing part of the problem in Brazil, is the only highway that connects from Venezuela goes to the state of Roraima. If you look at a map, Roraima is remote, far from large metro areas that have resources to deal with incoming refugees. Manaus on the Amazon is 1000 km south! The state capital of Boa Vista has less than 300,000 people, so even that place is going to have limited resources.

[Pueblofuerte]

^^
Sure its a factor but nowadays Venezuelans are walking long distances as far as the Ecuadorian border and beyond and over mountainous terrain which makes the journey just as long and in some respects more arduous. People have sadly died of hypothermia in the freezing Paramo terrain.

Also 300k is not so small, I assure you my parents city of Armenia has more Venezuelans and its also a city of under 300k. All is relative, millions more people also live along the north-eastern border than the southern border so the scale of the task is no-where near as large.

[naners1]

Originally Posted by Pueblofuerte

Brazil threatens to quit the new UN migration pact.
'The strain is too much': Venezuelan exodus has Brazil at breaking point - The Guardian

While international treaties oblige Brazil to keep the border open, anti-immigrant rhetoric from president-elect Jair Bolsonaro, who once described refugees as “scum of the earth”, has added to a mood of uncertainty at the border.

The Peruvian economy with 33 million inhabitants has been able to absorve with minimum hassle nearly one million venezuelans . How can brasil a country of over 210 million is at breaking point with less than 300,000 venezuelans immigrants? something does not add up.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwIvXVhXj7Q

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-8fe5JLVec

[80skeys]

Originally Posted by naners1

How can brasil a country of over 210 million is at breaking point with less than 300,000 venezuelans immigrants? something does not add up

Their politics are on an anti-immigration phase which is in fashion now in many countries - Italy, U.S., etc.

[AntonioR]

These are the latests numbers (Jan 2022) of Venezuelans flocking to several countries in the region.

- Over 6 million Venezuelans now live outside Venezuela and of those almost 5 million are in Latin America.

- Colombia has the most at 1.84 million.

- Perú comes in second place with 1.29 million.

- It's notable that Mexico has 83,000 which is almost nothing compared to how big it is in land and population, plus it borders the USA.

- In Central America the leader is Panama with 121.6 thousand.

- In the Caribbean the leadership belongs to the Dominican Republic where it has grown to 115.3 thousand.

By the looks of it, Venezuelans are leaving Venezuela but heading towards countries with good economic prospects for the near future. Hence countries like Cuba, Jamaica, Guatemala, El Salvador, etc hardly have any. In the cases of countries like Jamaica, Bahamas, St Lucia, Barbados, etc it could be said that the language difference could be a deterrent; however, Trinidad & Tobago, Curaçao, Aruba, and Guyana are mostly non-Spanish speaking countries and together they have over 84,000 Venezuelans. Nowhere in the Caribbean compares to the DR which has more Venezuelans than the entire Caribbean combined and growing.

https://www.r4v.info/sites/default/f...6M_Map_Esp.pdf