For Venezuelans fleeing chaos at home, Brazil offers temporary refuge and uncertainty
Amna Nawaz:
Monica de Bolle is a Latin American expert at the Peterson Institute for International Economics.
The cost of the crisis in the years ahead, she says, could amount to tens of billions in international aid. Since 2014, most Venezuelan migrants have fled to Colombia and Peru. But over the last few years, they have been fanning out across all of South America.
Earlier this year, tensions flared along Brazil's border with Venezuela after it was shuttered for nearly three months by President Maduro, in an attempt to block aid from reaching Venezuela.
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