Last August, Victor Rivera, a 36-year-old
unemployed baker, left his hometown in northern Venezuela and made the two-day
journey by road to the remote Amazonian city of Boa Vista, Brazil. Although
work is scarce in the city of 300,000 people, slim prospects in Boa Vista
appeal more to Rivera than life back home, where his six children often go
hungry and the shelves of grocery stores and hospitals are increasingly bare. "I
see no future in Venezuela," said Rivera, who seeks odd jobs at traffic
lights in the small state capital just over 200 km (124 miles) from Brazil's
border with the Andean country. Countries across Latin America and beyond have
received a growing number of Venezuelans fleeing economic hardship, crime and
what critics call an increasingly authoritarian government. More…
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