Angela, Edgar and Angel, six Angela Carolina Salazar, 29: ‘My husband sold his car and came before us. He picked up odd jobs and sent us money in El Tigre and we got to Brazil in May. Everything was decaying in Venezuela. It was too expensive to buy corn and we couldn’t get yuca. To buy a chicken cost a month’s wages. For a while we ate nothing but mangoes.’ Edgar Jose Eduardo Carvajal, 27: ‘It’s very complicated here. Some Brazilians are welcoming but others don’t want us to take the jobs and so there is discrimination. If they hear Spanish, they tell you to get lost. All we want is to work’