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About 50% of my close friends have left ( mainly to go to Miami ) but the rest have stayed.
How so many South Americans can simply 'move' to Miami is beyond my belief. When an Italian thinks about moving to the US, the first thought is 'no way! you need a sponsor and who is gonna sponsor you' (unless you a have rich relatives in the US who would sponsor you).
I asked myself the same question but there are areas of Miami that are totally populated by Venezuelans.
Now I see what you meant, Carlos. I thought it meant that people tend to go where many others went
Definitely Argentina, just like Italy, is a country living on vestigials from the past.
But Italy has 3000 years of history, we have only 400.- The main vesitgials are from our quick development from 1880 to 1940, when we received the industrial revolution and the european inmigrants
I am very puzzled by this Venezuela situation. Reading from the media, I considered every Venezuelan like a Syrian refugee. But when I met some, nobody told the same things I had read on newspapers. I still think Maduro is evil and a dictator, but I am getting conflicting information.
It really is hard to get anything but anecdotal evidence of how bad things are. But the hyperinflation alone in Venezuela seems to say that it would be impossible for a person of normal means to exist very long.
We have young friends now in the US, whose families are still in Venezuela. Both of their mothers, in their early 50s, died in the past year because the medicines they needed were not available.
It is hard to believe that the situation there is tolerable.
we are seeing a lot of false information on social media.
Over the weekend a young guy from London was tweeting from a supermarket in Caracas . Loads of merchandise , everything juts fine etc.
It turns out he was on a 5 star all expenses paid trip ( by Maduro and his team..) and he was taken to one of the supermarkets controlled by the regime.
The guy it turns out is the son of the Chairman of the Sudanese Communist party.
I see that the most evident proof that the Venezuelans are not doing well, is the great inmigration to not so prosperous countries like Argentina. The last information released by our Inmigration office tells that for the first time the Venezuelans had surpassed too much the usual number of the inmigrants, namely from Bolivia and Paraguay. Every year we received 260.000 people more (venezuelans included).
Perhaps they do not want to appear starving in their country for an understandable reason of national proud.
I simply don’t understand why social media, especially amateur “journalists” who blog, have come to be regarded as somehow just another branch of broadcast and print journalism, and as such, to be believed.
Your example, GlasgowJohn , makes that point all too well.
Fake news and "post truth" are in fashion in the postmodern era.
Well Richard Branson IS a well-known agent of the US, right?
Well Richard Branson IS a well-known agent of the US, right?
Claro que si!
Today's proof:
Crash and burn! He knows the end is in sight or maybe it was the sight of Spiderman?
This photo could be taken in 2019 Argentina if CFK or Scioli would be in charge.
Is that for real? Who burned the money, and why?
Maduro's government slaps fines on supermarkets with any empty shelves, so many are filling them with ketchup that nobody can buy.
Chavez had nationalised many supermarkets, so the bus driver is taking things one step further.
Source: Los Ketchup
