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A total of 2,448 Venezuelans requested legal permission to stay in 2015 and 2016. In the first five months of 2017, 1,617 Venezuelans requested such permission.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EWhile in 2014 Venezuela was sixth in the list of countries whose nationals were requesting legal permits to stay in Uruguay, in 2017, it jumped to the first place.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EThe number of Venezuelans living in Uruguay is much higher than official statistics show, according to \u003Cem\u003EManos VeneGuayas\u003C\/em\u003E, an organization who provides support to recent Venezuelan immigrants. Although the government does not charge Venezuelans to obtain residency permits and it only requires a document certifying the person has a Venezuelan passport or ID and no criminal record over the past five years, many immigrants have faced enormous difficulties to obtain the international certification (or \u003Cem\u003Eapostille\u003C\/em\u003E) of their criminal records, which is provided by the Venezuelan Ministry of Affairs. Others obtain legal residency from Uruguayan family members, so are not included in the official statistics of Mercosur residencies.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EHere are some accounts relayed to Human Rights Watch by Venezuelans who fled the crisis and are now living in Montevideo:\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EHern\u00e1n Gonz\u00e1lez \u003C\/strong\u003E(pseudonym), 40, fled Venezuela after the National Guard killed his brother, Pablo. One evening in November 2016, witnesses told Gonz\u00e1lez that Pablo was playing dominos with friends on the sidewalk of the slum where they lived near Caracas when members of the National Guard arrived in an official vehicle and detained him. Gonz\u00e1lez spent three hours going from one National Guard headquarter to another asking for Pablo, but everyone denied having him, he said. Later that evening, a friend accompanying his wife at a local hospital called Gonz\u00e1lez and told him he had seen Pablo there.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EMembers of the National Guard at the hospital told Gonz\u00e1lez that his brother had died in a \u201cconfrontation.\u201d When he saw the body, he noticed it had bruises all over his body and a bullet hole in the chest, he said.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EGonz\u00e1lez said what stood out to him about Pablo\u2019s killing was that, living in a violent slum, \u201cwe didn\u2019t get killed by delinquents, but rather by those who are supposed to take care of us.\u201d Gonz\u00e1lez, a hard-core \u003Cem\u003Echavista\u003C\/em\u003E for many years, confided that his family had become critical of the Venezuelan government over the past couple of years and he had voted for the opposition in the 2015 legislative elections, but was still afraid to publicly speak about it for fear of reprisals.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EGonz\u00e1lez, however, said his brother\u2019s killing was not the main reason he decided to move to Uruguay, where he arrived in mid-May 2017. He was tired of spending hours in line to buy food for his family and diapers for his 2-year-old grandson. He worked hard driving a truck and a friend\u2019s taxi, but due to the skyrocketing inflation, his earnings were never enough, he said. Like many Venezuelan families, the Gonz\u00e1les\u2019 usually ate one meal a day, rarely had proteins, and prioritized feeding his grandchild because, he said, the boy \u201ccannot understand that there is no food.\u201d Gonz\u00e1lez says he lost 30 kg in the eight months before leaving Venezuela\u2014which he was able to do thanks to the help of a former boss, who now lives Uruguay, and bought him a plane ticket. 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