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Brazil: North in crisis over Venezuela migration

Via commenter Old Timer,

Northern Brazil under State of Emergency over Mass Immigration of Venezuelans

The regional government of northern Roraima in Brazil has declared a state of emergency following the mass immigration of Venezuelans fleeing their country’s crisis over the past months.
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The mass exodus of Venezuelans “has created serious difficulties for the teams in charge of providing logistical support (reception and shelter) at the border,” states the decree, and mentions health and safety concerns for both immigrants and Brazilians.

Campos recalled that Roraima received a third epidemiological alert last week from the Pan American Health Organization about the possibility that, as a result of migration, the region might experience a measles outbreak similar to the one that has affected the Venezuelan state of Bolívar for the last six months, where 38 cases of the disease have been confirmed.

It’s not only Brazil and Miami, there’s also Colombia’s Venezuela Problem

An imploding economy, marked by product shortages and hyperinflation, has driven almost half-a-million Venezuelans to live in Colombia. That number includes a 50-percent rise in the past three months alone as thousands of new migrants arrive each day in search of medicine, food, and work.

These are symptoms of a larger problem: Joel Hirst writes about The Arriving Ordeal

Fragility and conflict. Those were the words for the post-cold war period, which is now over.

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  1. I watched a You Tube produced by the Austrian Broadcasting Company. They showed what a mess Venezuela was. They interviewed several. All did not like Maduro one bit. What surprised me that several spoke favorably of Chavez. They don’t see that he lay the groundwork of the current mess. Then again Chavez had $100 oil to do his lavish spending.

    Another thing I don’t understand is how can Bernie Sanders, a large percentage of Millennials, Sean Penn, Danny Glover, etal not see that socialism/communism does not work. Although it does work. Everyone is equal. ..Equally broke and miserable!

  2. Old Timer, if you’ve been paying attention to what’s being taught in our public schools, you wouldn’t be asking. The levels of blatant indoctrination is overwhelming. Especially if you’re a parent who leaves education to so-called teachers. Heck, if I had kids, I’d feel very lucky if they got through schooling without being screwed, blued and tattooed.