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Venezuelans: Go home!
Those seem to bee long past times when extravagant Venezuelans traveled throughout the world, spreading dollars. A sharp journalist —the recently deceased Miguel Angel Capriles—used to call them, sarcastically the "happy travelers". Long past times are those when Venezuelan lost their heads buying an apartment in Miami Beach, with a modest down payment —some fifty thousand dollars, or less— to be paid in thirty years: the illusion of owning real estate, in other words that they could do abroad something that impossible in their own country under the absurd real estate financing system. There is nothing left of these "happy travelers". No one remembers any more these Venezuelans who were courted by half the world, the United States in the first place; no more signs, no more faces. Nowadays, Venezuelans are not welcome practically anywhere, for a simple reason: their pockets are no longer filled with dollars, and their credit cards are sadly limited. When using them for payment they are looked at disdainfully by the retailers and the electronic systems processing the display a magic warning: Careful Venezuelans are no longer welcomed anywhere for another simple reason: they travel with tourist visas to stay, as many foreigners did before when coming to Venezuela and as many others do in other countries. At U.S. airports they are not treated well, and when going to Canada they face hurdles never seen before, and they are deported or given mandatory terms to leave the territory. "More than five hundred (500) Venezuelans will be deported from Canada", said recently José Ignacio Moreno León, Venezuela's ambassador in Ottawa. An outgrown number of visa applications —apparently more than seventy (70) thousand— are filed at the U.S. Consulate in Caracas. Life has changed for the Venezuelan citizen: the "happy travelers" have turned into sad travelers, into ill treated travelers, secret travelers. Life is a merry-go-round |
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