Description
Added on the 10/08/2018 19:49:07 - Copyright : AFP EN
Cuiabá (Brazil), Jun 26 (EFE) (cAMERA: Sebastião Moreira) .- Walking for more than twelve hours with children in arms, enduring hunger or facing the corruption of the border mafias. These are the stories told by the thousands of Venezuelans who arrive with the illusion of finding a life with "dignity" in a Brazil plagued by the pandemic and unemployment.FOOTAGE OF THE SITUATION IN THE STREETS OF CUIABÁ, BRAZIL
La Paz (Bolivia), Sep 23 (EFE).- Helen's family travelled a distance of more than 2,500 kilometres to arrive in Bolivia from Venezuela. Now they have to deal not only with the altitude and cold weather of La Paz but also with xenophobia. FOOTAGE OF VENEZUELAN MIGRANTS LIVING IN LA PAZ. SOUNDBITES OF:-HELEN:"My mum, my brother and my children. We are here fighting every day. There are good people and also bad people who say awful things to us. They say 'go back to your country', 'what are you doing here?'. If we are here it is not because we want it or we are happy here but because we have the need forces us. Many people said awful things to us, but some very nice people, who support us, help us. If someone asks if I want to wash, I'll wash. If someone asks if I want to cook, I'll cook. If I have to sell sweets, I'll sell them. We live like this."-ANA LLANCO, MEMBER OF MUNASIM KULLAKITA FOUNDATION:"We aim to help these children and families to become asylum seekers after an initial assessment since each family has a different story. In that context, some people become asylum seekers. So we help them, since they are in a vulnerable situation, to go to the appropriate authorities to have that provisional document so they have a regular situation in Bolivia and access to rights.""In this space, there are 30 families living and out of those 30 we focus our work in women, children and teenagers. In our mobile classrooms, there are have 20 children and 7 teenagers."
Images outside the Naval Hospital in Guayaquil where former Ecuadorian Vice President Jorge Glas was hospitalized after refusing to eat in prison. Glas, who had been granted political asylum at the Mexican Embassy in Quito, was arrested by Ecuadorian police Friday over corruption charges in a raid on the embassy that sparked a wave of international criticism. IMAGES
General Laura Richardson, commander of the US Southern Command (SOUTHCOM), arrives at the Carondelet Palace in Quito, Ecuador. A US government delegation, led by Special Presidential Advisor for the Americas to Joe Biden's administration, Christopher Dodd, is beginning a three-day visit to discuss plans for security cooperation between the two countries. IMAGES
Quito, Sep 24 (EFE).- The Ecuadorian president, Guillermo Lasso asked the parliament Friday to "fight together" against the new economic crisis caused by the pandemic. Lasso also presented Friday in the National Assembly the urgent economic project known as "Law for the Creation of Opportunities". (Camera: JUAN FRANCISCO CHÁVEZ).SHOT LIST: THE ECUADORIAN PRESIDENT GUILLERMO LASSO SPEAKS AT THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY IN QUITO, ECUADOR.SOUND BITES: ECUADORIAN PRESIDENT GUILLERMO LASSO (IN SPANISH).TRANSLATIONS: It is time to fight together against this new national emergency. This is a historic opportunity to become the Ecuador that we all dream of.
Kabul, Aug 28 (EFE/EPA).- Internally displaced Afghan families fleeing the violence set up Saturday a temporary shelter at a park in the Afghan capital.The Taliban asked Afghan citizens Saturday to return, within a week, all the guns, ammunition, vehicles, and other government properties in their possession. (Camera: STRINGER).B-ROLL OF THE TEMPORARY SHELTER OF DISPLACED AFGHAN FAMILIES IN A PARK IN KABUL, AFGHANISTAN.
|
Support : Technical 
- Content 
- Editors 
