Friday, August 16, 2019

South American Countries Are Closing Their Doors To Venezuelan Migrants

Venezuelan migrants Yonaimer Godoy and Mail Levea talk to Godoy''s father and their two-year-old son from a migrant shelter in Lima, Peru [Megan Janetsky/Al Jazeera]

Al Jazeera: Venezuelans face new barriers, xenophobia across South America

Latin American countries, once relatively open for Venezuelans, introduce new restrictions for migrants and refugees.

Lima, Peru - Yonaimer Godoy and his wife peered into his cracked phone, their eyes stained with tears.

"What are you doing over there?" Godoy's father asked him through a video call.

"Crying."

It was their son's second birthday, and they were stuck in a migrant shelter in Lima, Peru. They had left their home in Venezuela with a goal: earn enough money to help their family and eventually get them out of their collapsing country.

But Peru, the second-biggest receiver of the more than four million migrant and refugee exodus from Venezuela, had been hard on them. With temporary tourist visas, they were unable to find the work they were searching for. Instead, they were forced to sell drinks on street corners for about seven dollars a day and said they've faced a rising wave of xenophobia.

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WNU Editor: The exodus of Venezuelans fleeing their country has not stopped, with many predicting that this crisis is only going to get worse. The economies in Latin America are not structured to accept large number of migrants, and (not surprising) they are responding accordingly.

13 comments:

Mommy said...

and now finish your milk and cookies and take your nap like a good little boy

Anonymous said...

"The kind of nationalist and authoritarian politics that Trump promotes at home, that’s what these leaders are doing abroad,” former Deputy National Security Adviser Ben Rhodes says.Source: Former Deputy National Security Adviser Rhodes: President Trump is an embarrassment on the world stage

Anonymous said...

Ben Rhodes ..."graduating in 2002 with an MFA in creative writing"

Yeah, he is literate. NOT!

He earned (?) the MFA in creative writing to be able to write a novel.

To date there is no novel.

Anonymous said...

"Rhodes has criticized U.S. involvement in the Saudi Arabian-led intervention in Yemen. He wrote of the war in Yemen, "Looking back, I wonder what we might have done differently, particularly if we’d somehow known that Obama was going to be succeeded by a President Trump."

Yup, Ben Rhodes is getting his apologia and rewrites of history in.

Good thing he has a MFA in creative writing. LULZ!

Anonymous said...

Exposing the Hypocrisy of Fox News

Anonymous said...

WHY NOT GREENLAND AFTER THIS?

Anonymous said...

I have not fucked up the world like Ben Rhodes.

Ben Rhodes with his MFA in creative writing that Obama said he was a better writer than his phuck-up staff.

“I think that I'm a better speechwriter than my speechwriters." - Barack Insane Obama

Bob Huntley said...

I bet Greenland will be more difficult to invade than Grenada was.

Anonymous said...

CONSIDER THIS THEN

Roger Smith said...


Earth calling B. Huntley. Earth calling B. Huntley.

Come in please.

Anonymous said...

Earth calling Bob Huntley. Come in Bob.


Trump has not started one war unlike Clinton, Bush or Obama. That would be an inconvenient fact opt you.

There are 3 precendents to the US purchasing land.

Who knows maybe one days soon the US will include 90% of Canada, when Canadians petition to join the US.

Anonymous said...

Another bad link, Lapides?!?!?!

Anonymous said...

Not lied as much as you have.