Shooting video taken in Brazil, not Venezuela

A day after the United States announced that Venezuelan migrants who walk or swim across the U.S.-Mexico border would be immediately returned to Mexico, a video started to circulate on social media that claimed to show gunfire at a soccer game in the South American country. 

"Tf is going on in Venezuela," read the caption on one post sharing the video taken from the stands of a soccer game that shows shooting.  

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El Imparcial, a Mexican newspaper, reported in September that the shooting happened in a Brazilian favela in Rio de Janeiro.

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O Dia, a newspaper in Rio, also said in September that police were looking into the video in connection with a drug trafficking investigation.  

Millions of Venezuelans have fled their country amid violence, socio-economic insecurity, food shortages and a lack of medical care. They recently surpassed Guatemalans and Hondurans as the second-largest nationality stopped at the U.S. border after Mexicans, according to the Associated Press. 

But this video doesn’t show shooting in Venezuela. 

We rate that claim False.