With the election of President Hugo Chávez in 1998, Venezuela once again became a nation that attracted thousands of migrants.
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Our 1995 analysis looked at the fact that Venezuela, after World Wars I and II, became a receiving center for European migrants. While they welcomed migrants as a gesture of solidarity, Venezuelan governments of the day also promoted bringing in Europeans as a way of helping “improve the race” , according to former Venezuelan Minister of Economy Alberto Adriani, who helped facilitate European migration. Venezuela was traditionally a country mostly comprising Blacks and Indigenous people.
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