Unos 5.000 venezolanos huyen del hambre y el caos a diario, la crisis migratoria más grande de la historia de América Latina. Como no existen campos de refugiados, son las ciudades que los reciben.
- Richard von Weizsäcker Fellow na Bosch Academy e Co-fundador, Instituto Igarapé
- Research collaborator at the Brazil LAB, Princeton University
Up to 5,000 refugees flee hunger and chaos in Venezuela each day – a migrant crisis rivaling Syria’s. Most arrive to poor South American border cities that are dangerously unprepared for the influx.
Since 2000, 8.8 million Brazilians have been displaced by disaster, development and crime, new data shows. Now Venezuelan migrants are pouring into the country. Still, Brazil has no real refugee plan.
As hard-line Pentecostalism spreads across Brazil, some drug traffickers in gang-controlled areas of Rio de Janeiro are using religion as an excuse to attack nonbelievers.
In Rio de Janeiro, a stray bullet kills or injures one person every seven hours.
Latin America’s murder rate is the highest in the world, accounting for one in every four homicides on the planet.
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