CARACAS: Thousands of Venezuelans are clamoring to return home to recession, hyperinflation and a collapsing economy, President Nicolas Maduro's government claimed on Wednesday as Brazil sends troops to the border with its crisis-ridden neighbor.

A day after Maduro told the hundreds of thousands of his compatriots who have already fled the region's worst economic crisis in recent memory 'to return from economic slavery: stop cleaning toilets abroad and come back to live in your homeland,' Communications Minister Jorge Rodriguez claimed many are trying to do exactly that.