The double victims of the Venezuelan crisis

Early on 18 August 2018, *Ana heard fireworks and the echo of unintelligible Portuguese on a loudspeaker. “Are they going to have a party?” she wondered. She was beside the tarpaulin under which she and her husband, *Luis, and their 11-year-old daughter, *Lucia, slept in Pacaraima, a Brazilian town of approximately 12,000 people on the Venezuelan border. Although they lived on the street in Brazil where they had sought asylum, Ana and Luis told us they were better off than in their native Cumaná, a coastal town in Venezuela 1,200 kilometres away. In Cumaná, they had eaten so little food that Lucia…

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