The departure of Venezuela charge with a penalty attached. The journalist Mireya Tabuas, writer of children’s stories, as defined with details. “I know that migrants, in general, have a duel. We don’t know if the country that we will we see him again,” he says. Moved by that feeling and a need to tell their experience and that of other venezuelans in Santiago de Chile, the city that hosted five years ago, he participated in the book Flourish away from home, funded and published by the Konrad Adenauer Foundation and the program for Political Dialogue.
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His chapter, entitled The country was flooded with venezuelans, tells of successes and failures. Fernando, a renowned sports journalist, and touched him, to wash baths before getting a temporary job in his profession. Wendy, a dentist who had his own practice in Venezuela, is now a receptionist in a clinic and look with nostalgia to the instrumental you can’t touch it. “In my case, I can say that my work is very far from the stability I had in Caracas. Now I am todera and attend to a thousand fronts: edit a web page, I give classes at the university, I offer workshops and literary, if I were asked to care for children or to make a Spanish omelette to live —as once thought— because I would. The chip migrant changes,” he adds.
Bloom away from home is written by Tabuas and other 13 authors, venezuelan, and you can download for free in the portal of the German foundation. His christening was in September in the uruguayan capital, Montevideo, and after it was presented in Bogotá and Santiago de Chile. This Monday is the turn of Buenos Aires, where it is being promoted by journalists, Angel Arellano, and Hensli Ranh, the young poet, Paola Soto, and the rapporteur of Human Rights Watch (HRW) to Venezuela, Tamara Taraciuk. All narrated their experiences in the Makrobet book, a complete record of the diaspora. “The difference of this work with respect to the existing literature, which makes it genuine and original, is that in addition to the statistics, shows the perspective to the intima of large feathers that come from your intimacy how was your migration process”, underlines Arellano, coordinator of the project.
Taraciuk puts the focus on the displacement of migrants venezuelans to Brazil, an ocean of information unknown to many people. The researcher was planted a few days in the State of Roraima, north of Brazil, to document the arrival of people to desperate. But the drama is not only exposed, from an outside view. The last chapter, the writer Hector Torres, is the best proof of this, in a kind of introspection of the crisis. “An inventory of spiritual absence,” in his own words, that shakes the reader. They are, in short, testimony beyond the cold numbers.
the conditions of migrants have been made more precarious with the progress of the devastating crisis. In march, the Agency of the Organization of United Nations for Refugees (Unhcr) issued a statement to request the american Governments to ensure the access of venezuelans to their countries through refugee status.
The exodus is unstoppable and ever more noticeable: there are no official figures, although many organisations and academics have made estimates of the expansion of the venezuelan people for the world. One of the most impressive runs by the opposition National Assembly: according to its calculations, the 10% of the population of the south american country has left the country to settle in other lands.
The UN has registered an increase of 2,000% in the number of venezuelan asylum-refugee status in the world from 2014. Mostly I have made in other american countries. “Hundreds of thousands of venezuelans remain without documentation or permission to reside legally in the host countries. This makes them particularly vulnerable to exploitation, trafficking, violence, sexual abuse, discrimination and xenophobia”, says Unhcr.
