The protection and assistance activities under Operation Acolhida (Portuguese for “shelter”)—for Venezuelans coming to Brazil via Roraima state—are now celebrating their first anniversary.
Seven Venezuelan officials deserted their country’s Armed Forces in recent days and entered Brazil through the borders with Venezuela. The information was confirmed by the communication team of Operation Shelter (Operação Acolhida), spearheaded by the Brazilian Army.
Operação Acolhida (Operation Shelter), which welcomes and resettles Venezuelan immigrants in Brazil, will be extended until March 2020, and frontiers with the neighboring country have been confirmed not to be shut down. The decision was announced Thursday (Jan.
Brazil’s Social Development Ministry and the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) is renewing for another year today (Dec. 28) the cooperation deal ensuring the social and assistance rights of Venezuelan immigrants to housing and employment.
The Brazilian Armed Forces will stay in the northern state of Roraima until the end of the year to protect the settlements and activities related to the sheltering of Venezuelan refugees. A presidential decree postponing the end of the period was published Tuesday (Oct.