The prolonged economic and political instability in Venezuela has forced millions of Venezuelans to leave over the past decade, quashing many of their dreams and leaving many wondering if they’ll ever return to what was once South America’s most prosperous country.
FILE - Migrants, mostly Venezuelans, walk across the Darien Gap from Colombia into Panama, hoping to reach the U.S., Oct. 15, 2022. Refugee agency UNHCR estimates more than 7.7 million Venezuelans have left since 2014, the largest exodus in Latin Americas recent history, with most settling in the Americas, from neighboring Colombia and Brazil to Argentina and Canada.
Gómez, her then-partner and her two children, ages 3 and 13 at the time, took a flight to Bogota, where she eventually settled down and now runs a wellness center and a nonprofit organization that sends medications to Venezuela.Emilia Lizbeth Angulo, a 51-year-old lawyer, left the northwestern city of Merida in 2018 after being harassed by pro-government officials. It was the year Maduro was reelected in an election that saw major opposition parties and candidates banned from participating.
They haven't returned to Venezuela, and Díaz doesn’t think they will any time soon — at least not while what she calls the Maduro “dictatorship” remains in power.SPAIN Jacobo Alonso Sequeiros left Venezuela in 2012, when Chávez was still president. Hoping for a better future, he headed for Europe, traveling first to the U.K. before finding a job as a computer engineer in Spain.
Before leaving, Macedo worked for more than six years in different positions in the municipal office in Cagua, about 100 miles southwest of Caracas.
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