The mayor of São Paulo, Ricardo Nunes (MDB), stated on Monday (5) that he expects a decrease in the migration of Venezuelans towards the capital of São Paulo after the capture of President Nicolás Maduro by the United States, but “if they need it, SP will receive it”.
“Now that dictator Nicolás Maduro has been captured, we hope that with this situation of his removal the need for people to flee will decrease,” he stated. “Today we have 27 thousand vacancies, we have 21 thousand places occupied in shelters. I hope that [os venezuelanos] Don’t come, don’t need to come here. If they come, obviously, São Paulo will welcome them”, he concluded during a press conference.
According to Nunes, São Paulo is currently home to 1,009 Venezuelans, but the mayor hopes that a change in the country’s government will reduce the migration flow in Brazilian cities. The mayor also stated that he had heard many demonstrations about international law, but argued that there is a fundamental right that was being ignored: human dignity.
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“I think that only those who have lived through a dictatorship can be able to say something about this action of removing the dictator from the country, right?”, he asked. “What international law can you invoke when you have a situation of a rigged election, of someone putting 90% of the population in a state of poverty? It’s a lot of demagoguery”, he concludes.
Maduro’s arrest
Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro was captured by the United States last Saturday (3), in an orchestrated attack in Caracas. He was taken to New York with First Lady Cilia Flores on the same day and, on Monday (5), he participated in a hearing in Manhattan, in which he declared himself innocent of the charges.
The United States Department of Justice accuses Maduro of international narcoterrorism, conspiracy to import drugs into the United States and participation in the Los Soles Cartel, with the intention of disrupting the US and obtaining economic advantages from the actions.
