Almost immediately after US forces deposed Venezuela’s president, officials from Washington to Lima, Peru, began encouraging some of the 8 million Venezuelans who have scattered themselves across the Americas over more than a decade to go home. But that idea had not even crossed the mind of Yanelis Torres.
The 22-year-old graphic designer was too busy printing T-shirts with images of captured former Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro overlaid with phrases like Game Over. Her clients in Lima’s largest textile market were snatching them up within hours of the news of Maduro’s downfall.
Settled or undocumented, many of the millions of Venezuelans spread across Latin America received news of Maduro’s capture with joy, but also caution, especially after hearing US President Donald Trump say that he would work with Maduro’s vice president, now interim President Delcy Rodriguez, rather than the opposition.
Despite leaders in Peru and Chile echoing US suggestions to return to Venezuela, th​Almost immediately after US forces deposed Venezuela’s president, officials from Washington to Lima, Peru, began encouraging some of the 8 million Venezuelans who have scattered themselves across the Americas over more than a decade to go home. But that idea had not even crossed the mind of Yanelis Torres.
The 22-year-old graphic designer was too busy printing T-shirts with images of captured former Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro overlaid with phrases like Game Over. Her clients in Lima’s largest textile market were snatching them up within hours of the news of Maduro’s downfall.
Settled or undocumented, many of the millions of Venezuelans spread across Latin America received news of Maduro’s capture with joy, but also caution, especially after hearing US President Donald Trump say that he would work with Maduro’s vice president, now interim President Delcy Rodriguez, rather than the opposition.
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