Haitians of the Amazon

Silvaine Doris, 46, mother of 2 from Môle-Saint-Nicolas, Haiti, right, and another Haitian woman wait outside a small hotel in Brasileia, in Brazil's Amazonian state of Acre, on the border with Bolivia. Hundreds, if not thousands, of Haitians are showing up in Brazil - after an odyssey through Equador, Peru and Bolivia - with hopes of gaining residency as refugees in South America's largest nation. (Douglas Engle/Australfoto)

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Silvaine Doris, 46, mother of 2 from Môle-Saint-Nicolas, Haiti, right, and another Haitian woman wait outside a small hotel in Brasileia, in Brazil's Amazonian state of Acre, on the border with Bolivia. Hundreds, if not thousands, of Haitians are showing up in Brazil - after an odyssey through Equador, Peru and Bolivia - with hopes of gaining residency as refugees in South America's largest nation. (Douglas Engle/Australfoto)

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