Venezuelans, Go Home: Xenophobia Haunts Refugees

For decades, the oil-rich citizens of a great nation were stereotyped by their poorer neighbors as haughty. Now comes the payback.
Venezuelans wait in line to receive food donations at Simon Bolivar Square in Boa Vista, Brazil.
Venezuelans wait in line to receive food donations at Simon Bolivar Square in Boa Vista, Brazil.Photographer: Andre Coelho/Bloomberg

Mr. Saik touched a raw nerve when he released “La Chama.”

Panama’s hit single is about a Venezuelan woman who “fears nothing but immigration officers,” and “was famous in her own country but here does something else” — the something else presumably being prostitution.