2024-08-18 00:20:53
What Brenda Bullen misses most about her home country is the sea. fifteen years ago Escape from Venezuelabut he missed the smell of food. Dance salsa. Look at your family, friends and friends. Sit in front of that open ocean and watch the sunset.
“The truth is, it’s very painful for us”Brenda explained as she, along with other compatriots, carried the Venezuelan flag at the Bariloche Civic Center.
A group of Venezuelans joined global protests against Venezuela this Saturday afternoon. Wrap up and endure The icy wind blowing from the Cordillera Mountainsthey sang traditional songs and asked for the freedom of their motherland. They chanted slogans against the regime of President Nicolás Maduro.
They received support from some students passing by with the team, “Hang on Venezuela!” also echoed tourists and residents.
Brenda escaped in 2013.
Venezuelans in Bariloche demand freedom. (Photo: Marcelo Martinez)
“We don’t know where our people are. “My friends were there to kill me”said the woman. “We are not eight million Venezuelans traveling,” he clarified. “Eight million of us left because we were scaredbecause we were starving because there was not even toilet paper. They turned off our water, cut off our electricity,” he explained.
He insisted that 350 children and teenagers were “incarcerated”. “The fighting has been going on for three weeks and today five hundred people have been imprisoned. Five hundred people have been imprisoned!” he warned.
“If (Maduro) is really right, Don’t worry, he won’t be so cruel”, he suggested.
He said that in Venezuela “there is something called happy hour.” “The good times are when you go out and don’t know when you’ll be back. The worst is when they mark your house A red x. This means you are in the opposition. Then they take you away and they disappear,” Brenda said.
“My family situation is not good. Some are in Caracas, some are in Maracaibo,” he explained. Aunts and cousins are still there. Six of his children immigrated. “I had to let them graduate for me first. All of them. When they graduated one by one, I took them abroad. One in Germany, two in Colombia, three in Buenos Aires, and that’s how we did it ,” he commented.
“My mother died of pain. Three years ago it was very sad. I’m no longer here. The saddest thing is that your family and friends are dying and you don’t get a chance (to say goodbye to them),” he lamented.
“I can’t go to Venezuela”
“I can’t go to Venezuela. I come from theater. “I belong to the Teatro Teresa Carreno (an emblematic institution of the country’s culture)”, state.
She said she was a “director of rajatablas, where she produced productions; They took Teresa Carreno from us. “They destroyed the theater.”
He insists that those years “I played a match with Maduro and the next day my colleagues asked me to leave That’s how I left Venezuela” at the end of 2013 because they persecuted me.
Venezuelan flag at Bariloche Civic Center. (Photo: Marcelo Martinez).
He said he traveled through Caracas to Santa Elena de Guairenfrom the city of Grand Savannah. He then crossed to Brazil and later to Bolivia, “where I stayed for two years, arriving in Humahuaca, Jujuy. “I stayed there for about five more years. Then I went to Buenos Aires. Enos Aires, where I met my beautiful niece,” she said, caressing the teenager who accompanied her.
He remembered that he was traveling to Bariloche”When I saw the lake there, I said: Maybe it’s not Venezuela, but to me it’s the sea; I know it’s not the sea, but whenever I see it, I’m reminded of my little hometown.
When I saw that lake there, I said: It may not be Venezuela, but to me it is the sea; I know it is not the sea, but whenever I see it, I will think of my little motherland.
Brenda, Venezuelan from Bariloche
He clarified that he did not enter Lake Nahuel Huapi. “It’s too cold.” “There are no palm trees, no coconuts, but I’m really grateful.” He has lived in Bariloche for five years.
An Argentinian returning from exile in Venezuela
Rubén Pereyra is Argentinian and naturalized Venezuelan. He had lived in Venezuela for about 40 years but had to leave with his then 10-year-old daughter Luciana.
“Many people ask us, thinking it is because of economic problems, not just this problem. Freedom is more important than anything else,” he pointed out.
“We left in 2016, and my daughter who is a naturalized Argentinian. We live in Caracas“, account. He said when he made the decision to leave “They killed a friend of mine.”
After returning to Argentina, he and his daughter settled in Bariloche. “I was born in Buenos Aires, but the truth is, I didn’t want to live in Buenos Aires. I wanted something better, something that looked like Venezuela, although the climate was completely opposite. Essentially. Up,” Ruben said.
He said he left his home in Venezuela and his daughter’s mother remained there. “Now it looks like they’re going to meet again,” he revealed.
“Many Argentines think Venezuela is a democracy. They say there are elections. Yes, there were elections, but the results were not respected”, he pointed out.
“The opposition is not allowed to participate in the vote counting. Many things are not allowed and they just do whatever they want,” he said.
“These elections (July 28 last year), Although we know they won’t respect them, they have special value because it is indeed a trendthe avalanche of votes they simply couldn’t cover. There is nothing we can do,” he stressed.
He said the election “made people who believed there was democracy in Venezuela realize that democracy does not exist. It had an impact because we saw presidents like Lula, López Obrador, Boric, etc., not recognizing that Maduro.
He commented that Argentina is “the easiest and best country to receive Venezuelans.” He has been in Bariloche since the end of 2016. In Argentina, Bariloche is the best place,” Ruben said.
Brenda hopes to return to Venezuela
Brenda was asked if she ever hoped to return to her home country one day. respectful silence. He explained that there are two or three generations of young Venezuelans who have grown up with Chavismo and everything negative about the regime.
“It will take 30 or 40 years for Venezuela to achieve reconciliation,” he said.. “I need a passport, but obviously I don’t have one. I can’t vote. I can’t get a birth certificate and there’s no way they can send it to me, at least so I can get a passport here,” he asserted.
“If I go to Venezuela they will put me in jailbecause I had to escape. Now I’m 64, but I don’t think I’ll come back,” he lamented. He was excited because even though fifteen years had passed since he left, he still missed the smell of his homeland. “Venezuela smells different. “I miss my country. “
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