“What you need to know about the Venezuelan Refugee Crisis
What would cause approximately 4-8 million Venezuelans from every walk of life to leave their homes between 2014 to today?
As the outline of events above shows, this mass migration is rooted in the social and political events that date back to 1998 in Venezuela.
Venezuelans have left the country to find work, food, better healthcare, and stability. Women have been negatively affected and have been subject to kidnapping and human trafficking as well as coerced or tricked into sex work. These issues are exacerbated when we fail to show empathy on an individual and political level.