LatinNews Daily - 30 August 2018

* Brazil’s President Michel Temer indicated in a radio interview that his government might consider restricting the arrival of Venezuelan migrants in the country, through the use of a ticketing system. Temer’s comments came one day after he signed a presidential decree authorising the deployment of the armed forces on Brazil’s border with Venezuela in the state of Roraima to reinforce public security amid the continued mass influx of Venezuelan migrants escaping the economic crisis in their country and seeking assistance in Brazil; the arrivals have caused social tensions in Roraima’s border communities. An official statement later clarified that the Temer government is in no way considering closing the border. Local authorities in Roraima have been asking for the temporary closure of the border for months, something which the federal government refuses to do on humanitarian grounds.

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