“My name is Y. I’m 24 years old and I was born in Puerto La Cruz, in the state of Anzoátegui, Venezuela. Before the economic crisis, I had a normal life: I lived with my mother and sister, there was no shortage of food and I studied surgical instrumentation at a private college. My mom …
The term interiorization refers to voluntarily taking Venezuelan refugees and migrants from the state of Roraima to other cities in the country offering better opportunities for socioeconomic insertion. This, in turn reduces the pressure on public services in the state of Roraima. The federal government estimates around 260,000 Venezuelan refugees and migrants currently live in …
Interiorization – a hope for a better life inside Brazil Read More »
This is K.’s story, one of AIRE’s residents who faced many challenges until he got to Sao Paulo and now dreams of starting a new life in Brazil: “Before the crisis, we lived a comfortable middle-class life in Venezuela. My wife and I worked, we had a home and food. With the crisis, the country’s …
Much harder than starving is seeing your child ask for food and have nothing to offer Read More »
Today Venezuela faces a political and economic crisis that has been devastating the country. It started in 2013 when Nicolás Maduro became president after the death of Hugo Chávez and was intensified by the devaluation of oil in the international market from 2014. The consequence was the impoverishment of the population, leading to the huge …
