Venezuela's indigenous Warao decamp to uncertain future in Brazil

An indigenous Warao woman from the Orinoco Delta in eastern Venezuela, makes bread at a shelter in Pacaraima, Roraima state, Brazil November 15, 2017. REUTERS/Nacho Doce

PACARAIMA, Brazil (Reuters) - An indigenous tribe that journeyed hundreds of kilometres to flee the economic crisis in Venezuela has been trapped in limbo near the border in Brazil, after it was moved off the streets of the Amazon city of Manaus.

Driven by hunger and illness from their traditional homeland on the Orinoco River delta in northeastern Venezuela, more than 1,200 members of the Warao tribe migrated to northern Brazil to live and beg on the streets.