The violence in the Venezuelan border area with Brazil over the delivery of relief goods may have cost the lives of many more people than expected. The prefect of the Gran Sábana region,...
The Brazilian government is sending military personnel to the border town of Pacaraima, because there were confrontations between Brazilian residents and migrants from Venezuela on Saturday. The army reported that about 1200 Venezuelans fled to their own country after the riots, according to the Agencia Brasil news agency.
Residents of the northern Brazilian city of Pacaraima attacked a refugee camp on Saturday and set it on fire. In the camp about two thousand Venezuelan refugees, many of whom fled back, crossed the border.
