Tag: venezuela
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What Just Happened in Venezuela?
by Oriana Acosta Oil, diamonds, and mercury. Venezuela is the country sitting on one of the worlds’ biggest oil supplies–so much wealth–that every single house would come with a room and bathroom made especially for the housekeeper. The average citizen would spend the summer in their beach house, and then go back to their regular…
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Life as a Venezuelan
by Javier Pacheco My home country Venezuela has been in a bad situation. Especially the economy, which started a few years ago in president election of 1999. Venezuela was very rich country because the amount of petroleum, however, citizens were not happy with everything that was happening during that time; but we were really…
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Student Perspective: Venezuelan Immigrants
by Adrianna Nouel Today, many Venezuelans are doing everything possible to look for other horizons, away from the land that saw them born. We do not leave the country because we want to, in fact, we leave with faith that our country will be fixed very soon. Currently there are important colonies of Venezuelans in…