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Gas was always cheap there for a long time , maybe they all Drove gas Guzzling SUV's ?
Yes. And I've asked her.
Her reply: "That's where I feel I belong" or "I feel better there."
She's told me her Venezuelan friends are very caring.
They embraced her soon after arriving there, and treated her and her young daughter like family.
I know a Venezuelan Lyft driver in Florida.
He was my go to driver when I was going repeatedly for medical treatment.
He would pick me up and take me to and from the Mia airport to Delray Beach and various appointments. .
We had some long discussions.
To say he hated Socialism was an understatement.
He was proud of his new RAV4, his daughter in private school and that he would hopefully be buying a home (which is quite a feat in S. Florida). He was driving very long hours.
He told me future generations of Venezuelans would become like Cubans in Florida, hard working, conservative, family people and politically conservative.
I realize that is only one person but if that becomes the long term philosophy of the Venezuelan immigrants coming into DR they will be positive additions.
Weeding out the criminal element will the harder part, like it was for the Marielitos.
I would be curious to hear from others who have interactions with more Venezuelan immigrants in DR and what they're like. .
He was my go to driver when I was going repeatedly for medical treatment.
He would pick me up and take me to and from the Mia airport to Delray Beach and various appointments. .
We had some long discussions.
To say he hated Socialism was an understatement.
He was proud of his new RAV4, his daughter in private school and that he would hopefully be buying a home (which is quite a feat in S. Florida). He was driving very long hours.
He told me future generations of Venezuelans would become like Cubans in Florida, hard working, conservative, family people and politically conservative.
I realize that is only one person but if that becomes the long term philosophy of the Venezuelan immigrants coming into DR they will be positive additions.
Weeding out the criminal element will the harder part, like it was for the Marielitos.
I would be curious to hear from others who have interactions with more Venezuelan immigrants in DR and what they're like. .
There are only a few where we live, but the ones we know are very hard working people. One couple opened an empanada business (different from Dominican types, dough is made from corn meal, delicious). Another is a young guy who works different jobs, was a baseball player until he was injured. One thing he does is make arepa that he sells (very successfully) outside the local school every day. Then there’s the “house” where Venezuelan ladies do their thing on the road to San Cristobal.
Well doing their thing maybe a service but it is not something that they likely fled Venezuela to do.
You don't happen to have the GPS coordinate of that house do you ?
The young lads that break dance in the street at the red light on Sarasota and Moya are Venezuelans. They always get tips. They are there every day. At a large hotel around the corner many young ladies work admin jobs. They speak perfect English, probably why they are there. Additionally, MADuro is asking citizens to report the people who are protesting his victory. He is operating directly out of Castros handbook.
photos would be better. I am doing my doctoral thesis on the plight of young working Venezuelan chicas. It is a long study.Well doing their thing maybe a service but it is not something that they likely fled Venezuela to do.
You don't happen to have the GPS coordinate of that house do you ?
I know a lot of Venezuelans.
I have former colleagues who live
and work in Caracas, I know several living in Florida and I also have Venezuelan friends living here in Santiago.
Based on several of your previous post throughout your time here on DR1, I think it safe to assume you would consider all of them right wing extremist..
and I've zero doubt all them would consider you to be foolish.
I wish my spanish was decent enough to have a conversation with the ones I know. We have a Venezuelan restaurant here in BC and we go there once a week for wings. I would love to pick their brains and get their opinion on Madura. However, while I could ask questions, I'm not sure I would understand the responses.
They do like them when they are out of power and one of the options for voters. It’s once they are in power that they have a change of heart.
There is one snippet of a speech that Maduro gave many years ago that I keep remembering over and over when I see something of the current Venezuelan elections. He said the right will never rule Venezuela again. If by right he means all parties that aren’t full fledge socialist even if they are leftist, then I think that is all that is needed to know to understand this and every other Venezuelan elections while they are in power.
I can assure you their opinion is the same as the Cubans in Miami towards Castro.
I learned most of my Spanish the first three months living here with a dictionary practicing with (my then) 3 year old surrogate daughter along with my neighbors from church.
Many tell me stress and disease kill just as many people, if not more, than what we typically hear about in mainstream media.
Socialism never last without the support of the military and for good reason.
I was in conversation yesterday with a Nicaraguan that has just got his Dominican citizenship, a Dominican American who lived in Venezuela through the first few years of Chavez, and a Bolivian that has lived in Venezuela but now lives half time in Argentina (wife was from there) and half time in NYC. Interesting to listen to people that have live under various forms of socialism and dictatorships. They all felt that Maduro needs to be put to rest permanently.
maybe he thinks living in a socialist hell hole that that has caused literally millions to flee is a "good thing"
wrong!! The Thief that is in office now and his predecessor Chavez have destroyed the petrostate through corruption and violence. Venezuela jails countless journalists. An embargo does not cause "millions" to flee with no desire to return.