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Much harder than starving is seeing your child ask for food and have nothing to offer

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 …

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The Venezuelan crisis

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 …

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