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Venezuelan migrant in Brazil finds calling as host of “The Refugee Voice” podcast
Lucrecia Franco, Gordon Durnin
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Refugees and migrants from Venezuela are producing weekly podcasts at a refugee shelter in the Brazilian border city of Boa Vista. Programs are played over loudspeakers in Spanish and have the main goal of fighting misinformation.

It's called “La Voz de los Refugiados”, the Refugee Voice. One of its first hosts is Jossymar Ortiz, who fled Venezuela to escape the economic crisis and the country’s stigma and discrimination against transgender women like her. This is her story.

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