Venequia: How the Land of ‘Venecos’ Was Born
Mass migration led some of us to appropriate a surname with negative connotations created in Colombia decades ago, just like our ancestors seemed to assume the moniker that named our country.
Tag: Venezuelan Migrants
Venezuela is Haunting the Argentina Elections, Again
Our country’s economic disaster remains a cautionary tale that candidates use as warning against their contenders. But in the current bizarre fight between a libertarian and a Peronista, both say the other is the next Chávez
Uruguay is Receiving Venezuelans, With a Caveat
The Southern small and peaceful country is trying to become an immigration haven again, but granting only a rare -and constraining- figure of citizenship that dates from 1830
Maduro Adds the Mass Migration He Caused to Anti-Sanction Rhetoric
Following the Mexican and Cuban traditions of blaming drug trafficking on the US and describing economic sanctions as blockades, the Chavista ruler joins a regional leftist effort to use the migratory crisis as a political opportunity
Organizing the Venezuelan Opposition Primaries Abroad
NGOs and parties around the world came together to organize an election for hundreds of thousands of dispersed Venezuelan voters
What's Behind the Siege of Tocorón?
Journalist Ronna Rísquez explained what's behind the government's crackdown on Venezuela's most notorious prison
How to Read the Watson Hotel Protests
A group of male migrants and refugees protested to avoid being removed from the hotel rooms paid for by the city. Is the local authority required to provide for all their needs? Or should they take on the responsibility to provide for themselves?
2022 Migration Year in Review
We closed 2022 with more than 7 million Venezuelan migrants and refugees scattered throughout the world, surpassing now the two greatest forced displacement flows, from Syria and Ukraine. Here is a synthesis of the critical milestones of our story of migration
A Venezuelan Community Grows in Utah
With some help of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints and attracted by the job market, Venezuelans became the third largest Latin American community in the state
Using Migrants as a Political Weapon
What Greg Abbott and Ron DeSantis are doing right now to Venezuelan migrants in the U.S. resembles tactics from infamous dictators like Fidel Castro and Aleksander Lukashenko
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