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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
Manaus, Jan 16 (EFE).- More than 1,000 people have been buried over the last seven days in this Amazon metropolis battered by coronavirus and the coroner's office is making house calls to expedite the issuance of death certificates so families can lay deceased loved ones to rest.A record 213 funerals took place in Manaus on Friday, 102 of them for victims of Covid-19. (Camera: RAPHAEL ALVES). SHOT LIST: PATHOLOGISTS VISIT RESIDENCES IN MANAUS, BRAZIL, TO COLLECT SAMPLES FROM BODIES AND ISSUE A DEATH CERTIFICATE SO THE FAMILY CAN LAY THEIR LOVED ONE TO REST.
Brasilia, Sep 4 (EFE), (Camera: Alex Mirkhan).- Marianny left Venezuela in November 2019 and find in Brazil a land of opportunity. She is one of the almost 8,000 Venezuelan refugees regularised in Brazil in August.FOOTAGE AND SOUNDBITES OF MARIANNY:"My husband travelled to Peru in June 2019. A cousin waited for him there. He had a ticket to Colombia. And once in Colombia he had to walk, he lived many experiences, he slept on the streets....until he arrived in Peru.""Brasilia is a land of opportunity. There are jobs so it's very easy...what is difficult for us it's the language because, although it's similar to Spanish, some people speak very quick."
Rumichaca, May 9 (EFE).- A group of 88 Venezuelan migrants who had been stranded for almost two weeks on the border between Ecuador and Colombia were evacuated on Saturday from the Rumichaca pass to Quito, where they will take a humanitarian flight back to Venezuela this weekend.These Venezuelans have been transferred within an agreement between the municipality of Tulcan, the closest Ecuadorian town to the pass, and the Venezuelan Consulate in Ecuador, in order to resolve a humanitarian situation after the regional borders were closed in response to the coronavirus pandemic (Camera: XAVIER MONTALVO).SHOTLIST: STRANDED VENEZUELANS BOARDING A BUS TOWARDS QUITO IN RUMICHACA, ECUADOR.
Atlanta (US), Dec 6 (EFE/EPA) .- Miss Brazil Júlia Horta on Friday called for an end to gender violence while walking in her national costume during the Miss Universe 2019 preliminary round in Atlanta, Georgia.Horta was not the only beauty queen who used the Miss Universe 2019 catwalk to advocate social causes. Miss Laos Vichitta Phonevilay also dazzled the crowd in her elephant costume with a sign that read 'stop fire save amazon'.The final stages of the competition will take place on Dec 8 in Atlanta. (Camera: CRISTÓBAL HERRERA).FOOTAGE SHOWING MISS BRAZIL JÚLIA HORTA AND MISS LAOS VICHITTA PHONEVILAY ON THE CATWALK OF MISS UNIVERSE 2019 PRELIMINARY ROUND IN ATLANTA, US.
Demonstrators shout "coup plotter" outside Venezuelan embassy in Brasilia, after officials opened the doors to opposition leader Juan Guaido's appointed ambassador Teresa Belandria. IMAGES