For Many Fleeing Venezuela’s Chaos, New Trouble in Brazil

Moraleda family members ride in the back of a pickup after leaving their Orinoco Delta home in Venezuela, where the country’s collapse has brought about violence and deprivation. They’re hoping to make a better life for themselves in Brazil.

Grandmother Delia Estrella and Ingrid Moraleda, 13, ride from Las Claritas to Santa Elena with their family in search of food and health care. Ingrid tends to her grandmother, who had never left the Orinoco Delta until this trip.

Venezuelan migrants leave Pacaraima on foot. Most of them are seeking a better future in Boa Vista, the capital of Roraima state, about 135 miles away.

Eunice Henríquez and Jesús Gómez flee Venezuela because of the country’s collapse. They stayed in Pacaraima for one week and then walked and hitchhiked to Boa Vista.