Joseph A. Camp
@JoeyCamp2020
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The plight of the Venezuelan people is something I understand well. Being in Central and South America for as long as I have, I have a complex understanding of their situation.
I also have a complex understanding of the locals situations where the fleeing Venezuelan people land. For example, in Colombia, the country with the most Venezuelan refugees, and ran by a far left President (Petro), the local people have mixed feelings: in a small town, near to the border, many Venezuelan's settled.
Here is the story (paraphrased) of a local young woman's observations:
The Venezuelan people who settle. Without resources or jobs or education. Some of the women would result to prostitution (legal in Colombia) and they would have no moral problems sleeping with a husband and breaking up a home.
Some of the men would steal, rob, extort, introduce violence and crime to the town that had almost none prior.
Just recently, as relayed to me, a Venezuelan raped a young child. The village was forced to live with this dynamic and it effects them still today.
In Costa Rica, the Venezuelans seek Asylum in such high numbers because Nicaragua is not allowing them passage through their country, which, under a negotiated treaty with Biden, requires they be provided work permits, stipends, and housing. As relayed to me by someone in San Jose:
They pickpocket, steal from tourists, they take housing and increase the rent for locals because their accommodations are gaurenteed so landlords don't even bother with renting to locals any more. They take jobs as contractors so that they don't have to be paid the minimum wage… they panhandle and litter.
In Mexico, they are on their way to the States. They are given an amount of time to make the passage (30-90 days). During that time they don't care about their crimes, they only want to get to the states, where they will destroy their documents and deny that they did anything. None of their victims get justice.
These are not the majority of Venezuelan people. In Costa Rica, if you remember, we raised $200 for Todo y Todo, the Venezuelan restaurant that was closing. The woman who ran it, amazing and caring and loving.
The dynamic is complicated, because the criminals overshadow the actual victims of Maduro. Maduro's dictatorship takes the prisoners and drop them into foreign territory so that he doesn't have to pay for their imprisonment, and ultimately they continue their crimes throughout the world. Add to that the expansion of Tran de Aguqua and other transnational narco-cartel operations that is directly influenced and ran by Maduro mixed in with the legitimate refugees and the situation becomes insanely complex.
Maduro needs to end. Maria and Edwardo have promised to allow all Venezuela people to return home and to work with nations to help them get back to Venezuela. Every legitimate refuge of Venezuela that I have met wants to return to their country. They have patriotism, they have love for their home. They miss it. But they have legitimate fears, and ultimately zero opportunity with narco-terrorist Maduro running the country.
This is why I support the opposition. So that the good Venezuelan people can prosper again, and the bad can be separated and disposed of.
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