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Chavez will show us the true purpose of socialism...thats why he got rid of term limits.
sheeesh, if all those thousands hadnt left, they might have defeated this thing at the ballotI thought socialism was great????? So why are people leaving Venezuela????
I know this article is about a year old but it relates to what's going on in the USA today...
Socialist Policies Spur Venezuelans to Leave
.Manuel Corao, who runs a newspaper serving the Venezuelan community in Miami, estimates that about three Venezuelans a day arrive in the Miami area with the intention to stay.
"They fear the Chavez government, they fear communism and the dictatorship. It's terrible," said Corao, who arrived from Venezuela 11 years ago and stayed because of the situation in his home country.
According to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, the number of green cards — or permanent legal resident visas — given to Venezuelans in the United States have more than doubled during this decade. In 2006, 11,341 were issued to Venezuelan citizens, up from 4,693 in 2000, the year after Chavez came to power
.Manuel Corao, who runs a newspaper serving the Venezuelan community in Miami, estimates that about three Venezuelans a day arrive in the Miami area with the intention to stay.
"They fear the Chavez government, they fear communism and the dictatorship. It's terrible," said Corao, who arrived from Venezuela 11 years ago and stayed because of the situation in his home country.
According to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, the number of green cards or permanent legal resident visas given to Venezuelans in the United States have more than doubled during this decade. In 2006, 11,341 were issued to Venezuelan citizens, up from 4,693 in 2000, the year after Chavez came to power
According to the Venezuelan National Institute of Statistics, it had a population of 26,414,816 inhabitants by 2008.
I think the nation won't be depopulated for quite some time since its population growth is 1.36%.
So, if it's losing 11,341 a year to immigration, it's also gaining 359,421 per year due to births.
.Manuel Corao, who runs a newspaper serving the Venezuelan community in Miami, estimates that about three Venezuelans a day arrive in the Miami area with the intention to stay.
"They fear the Chavez government, they fear communism and the dictatorship. It's terrible," said Corao, who arrived from Venezuela 11 years ago and stayed because of the situation in his home country.
According to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, the number of green cards or permanent legal resident visas given to Venezuelans in the United States have more than doubled during this decade. In 2006, 11,341 were issued to Venezuelan citizens, up from 4,693 in 2000, the year after Chavez came to power
According to the Venezuelan National Institute of Statistics, it had a population of 26,414,816 inhabitants by 2008.
I think the nation won't be depopulated for quite some time since its population growth is 1.36%.
So, if it's losing 11,341 a year to immigration, it's also gaining 359,421 per year due to births.
Venezuela is experiencing severe shortages of medicines and basic goods. The US said the money would provide fleeing Venezuelans and the Colombian communities hosting them with emergency food and health assistance. Colombian officials estimate that about 600,000 Venezuelans have crossed the border in recent years.
'Humanitarian disaster'
The United Nations has called the exodus from Venezuela into neighbouring countries a "humanitarian disaster". The announcement about "this initial, and immediate commitment of $2.5m" was made by the administrator of the US Agency of International Development (USAid), Mark Green. Mr Green put the blame for the Venezuelan exodus on the government of President Nicolás Maduro. "Regrettably, this crisis in Venezuela, which is now spilling into the broader region, is man-made - the result of continued political mismanagement and corruption by the Maduro regime," Mr Green said.
Thousands of Venezuelans cross into Colombia daily, escaping an economic crisis at home
The US government has been highly critical of President Maduro and has placed sanctions on him and other high-ranking members of his government and the military. On Monday, in his latest move targeting the government in Caracas, US President Donald Trump signed an executive order barring US companies and citizens from dealing in Venezuela's crypto-currency, the Petro. The economic and political crisis in Venezuela has also been one of the main talking points in a meeting between Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos and Brazilian President Michel Temer in Brasilia on Tuesday.
While the number of Venezuelans which have crossed into Brazil is believed to be in the tens of thousands rather than the hundreds of thousands who left for Colombia, Brazilian border states are feeling the strain. On Tuesday, Venezuelans who were squatting in a building in the town of Mucajaí in Roraima state in northern Brazil were driven out by residents angry over the killing of a local person. About 300 residents protested in front of the building and burned the possessions of the Venezuelan migrants after police said the two suspects in the murder were Venezuelan nationals.
US offers aid to fleeing Venezuelans
The text messages are from 9,600km away in Santiago, Chile, where he is helping to resettle a group of young Venezuelans trying to retrace his own immigrant’s journey to a better future. Between deciphering data and writing code, he fields questions that come flying fast: What is the fastest bus line downtown? How do you apply for an immigrant identity card? Any leads on a job? “Sometimes I’m rude and tell them to look on Google, or I have to just turn off my phone because I get five messages all at once,” Nunez-Mujica, 34, said. The demands on his time and energy are part of his solitary battle to give those trapped by his homeland’s economic crisis a fresh start abroad. Since the end of last year, he has shelled out about US$40,000 of his own money helping about 40 Venezuelans — most of them complete strangers — migrate to other South America nations. The acts of generosity range from a few months of free rent at an apartment he manages in Santiago to bus fare for a surgeon, so he could move to Peru with his wife and daughter.
Guido Nunez-Mujica, back to camera, who has helped about 40 Venezuelans escape their country, hugs Jose Manuel Hernandez as Jose David Fernandez stands by, during their first in-person meeting in Santiago, Chile
Nunez-Mujica has now launched the crowdfunded Salto (“Leap”) Project to scale up the assistance effort, convinced that the only immediate solution to Venezuela’s mess is helping those who can escape. So far he has raised US$5,250, but the goal is more than US$40,000. “There’s no way someone like me can do anything about the situation in Venezuela, but if I can do a little bit to help people leave that helps me to sleep at night,” he said in an interview from the offices of Slice Technologies, where he earns a modest tech worker’s salary coming up with solutions to improve e-shopping experiences. “I know it’s a drop in the ocean, but it’s something within my reach to do.” It is a homespun solution to an ever more desperate situation. Mounting hunger, hyperinflation and an authoritarian government are increasingly driving Venezuelans abroad in one of the largest exoduses in Latin America’s history. Independent groups have estimated that 3 million to 4 million Venezuelans have abandoned their home country over the past few years, with several hundred thousand fleeing last year alone.
Daniel Klie, 25, is one of the recipients of Nunez-Mujica’s “micro-sponsorships,” in his case US$200 for a plane ticket to Santiago. With almost no savings to his name, Klie’s first two months in Chile were torment. A college graduate with two degrees, in journalism and library sciences, he worked under the table at a butcher shop, toiling long hours seven days a week for less than the minimum wage. Then, buoyed by Nunez-Mujica’s coaching and moral support, Klie won an internship at an advertising agency. He now has a full-time job earning about US$550 a month — five times as much as he made in an entire year holding down three jobs back home. “In Venezuela, trying to save money is a titanic undertaking,” Klie said. “It’s all about trying to eat and survive each day. Planning ahead is impossible.” Nunez-Mujica, who abandoned Venezuela in 2011, first for Chile and then three years ago for the US, said that the idea of helping others was born from the frustration he felt hearing stories and seeing pictures of friends who had lost weight struggling to feed themselves.
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