Election results elsewhere have boosted Nicolás Maduro but humanitarian crisis is far from over
Those exiles reject the idea that their homeland is bouncing back. “President Maduro completely destroyed the country,” said Anthony Llovera, a former paramedic, as he waited for a free lunch outside a migrant shelter in Boa Vista, the biggest Brazilian city next to the Venezuelan border.
Among Vila Esperança’s 176 residents, nearly all of whom are unemployed, there were doubters too. Regina Latinez, 40, a community leader, believed positive change would take decades, if not centuries, to materialise. Regina Latinez and her family in Vila Esperança. ‘What’s happening is madness,’ she says of the situation back home.In the meantime, Latinez has opened a community centre for exiled children, called Proyecto Nazareth. She hopes her teenage daughter Laura could study dentistry at university in Brazil. They have no plans to return home to the north-eastern state of Monagas.
“We are poised, at the moment,” Gunson said. “It’s possible that the arduous and lengthy process of negotiating a gradual transition in Venezuela could be about to start. But we could also be about to slide back into another cycle of repression and economic decline, discontent and mass migration – and much depends on what Maduro himself decides to do.”
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