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Tuesday 9 april 2019
UNICEF: Venezuelan children on the move need help

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) scrounging for handouts
— Across Colombia's capi- from passing vehicles at
tal, Venezuelan children, an intersection in Bogota.
including infants, spend Mothers carried their ba-
hours at busy intersections bies. The youngest child
while their migrant parents was six days old, the oldest
sell candy or ask motor- was 6 years old. Toddlers
ists for a few coins to get played with toys or ate
through another day after candy, seemingly oblivious
fleeing their homeland in to the roar of traffic around
search of a better life. them. Some motorists rolled
The impact of Venezuela's down their windows to give
devastating economic, so- out a few coins.
cial and political problems One of the migrants, Wilfran
has rippled across Latin Garrido, 22, said he had
America and the Caribbe- worked at a hotel in Vene-
an in recent years as more zuela's Carabobo state but
than 3 million people left left the country because
the country. As is the case of the deteriorating eco-
in humanitarian emergen- nomic situation that made
cies around the world, it is it hard to feed his family. He
the children who are most said he arrived in Bogota
vulnerable. Holding her baby, Venezuelan migrant Jenifer Salas, 27, waits for traffic to come to a standstill so last year and was able to
About 1.1 million children she can ask drivers for spare change in Bogota, Colombia, Monday, April 8, 2019. find a school for his 4-year-
will need access to services Associated Press old son and a kindergarten
such as education, sanita- for his 2-year-old. He and
tion and safe drinking wa- is more than double the families. UNICEF said in an appeal to his wife also have an infant
ter across the region this number of children who "Some migrants — including governments to uphold the 4 months old.
year because of the Ven- need such help right now, unaccompanied and sep- rights of children, including "I hope the future is better
ezuelan migrant crisis, UNI- and it expressed concern arated children, pregnant migrants and refugees. for my three children, be-
CEF says in a new report. about reports of discrimina- women, nursing mothers as On Thursday, about 20 cause there is no future in
The U.N. children's agency tion and violence against well as indigenous people Venezuelan babies and Venezuela," said a tearful
said the projected figure Venezuelan children and — are at increased risk," children were with parents Garrido.q
Brazil army arrests soldiers after family car shooting

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Ten old thought his father was
members of Brazil's military still alive.
were under arrest Monday "My God, why did the (sol-
after soldiers fired 80 shots diers) do this?" Dos Santos
at a car carrying a family, said, almost struggling to
killing a 46-year-old man breathe. "Murderers, that's
and stirring outrage in the what they are," said Dos
country. Santos' sister Deborah out-
Evaldo dos Santos Rosa was side the forensic institute.
driving Sunday to a baby "It's like the governor said:
shower with his 7-year-old Kill first and then see. And
son, his wife, her stepfather that's what they did: First
and another woman when they killed and then they
soldiers started shooting at went to see that it was a fa-
them, according to rela- ther, that there was a family
tives. The stepfather and a inside, that there was a kid
passerby who was trying to inside.""This can't keep hap-
help were injured but the pening. We want justice,"
rest of the family was un- the victim's 29-year-old son,
harmed. Daniel, told The Associated
The military initially said in a Press in a phone interview.
statement that the soldiers Brazil has the largest num-
had responded to gunfire ber of annual homicides in
from attackers. But police the world and new Presi-
said no arms were found Residents gather to watch the death scene investigation where Evaldo dos Santos Rosa, the driver dent Jair Bolsonaro has
of a family car, was killed by armed forces, in the Guadalupe neighborhood, Rio de Janeiro, Bra-
in the car and the military zil, Sunday, April 7, 2019. vowed to unleash security
eventually changed its Associated Press forces to battle rampant
statement. violence. But the armed
"All evidence point to a ho- area mistook Dos Santos eastern military command, gators were under arrest. forces have long been criti-
micide," police investigator Rosa's car for that of crimi- we determined the imme- Luciana Dos Santos, the cized for extra-judicial kill-
Leonardo Salgado told TV nals. diate removal of the mili- victim's wife, went to the ings, especially in the state
news Globo after inspect- "Due to inconsistencies be- tary (members) involved," morgue Monday to iden- of Rio de Janeiro. In 2018,
ing the site. tween the facts initially re- the armed forces said in tify her husband's body. In the police killed 1,534 peo-
On Monday, the military ported and other informa- statement. Ten of the 12 tears, shock, Dos Santos ple in the state, according
said soldiers patrolling the tion later received by the men questioned by investi- told reporters her 7-year- to government data.q