It seems to be a habit...

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It seems to be a habit that every December in Venezuela there is a referendum. I just talked to my best friend that still live in Venezuela and he is very concerned about the result of this coming elections (referendum). He mentioned that "He is afraid of planning to have kids and the future of them in a country ruled by a man like Hugo Chavez, a man who is making everyday more enemies."

The only think I can do is pray and try to voted here in the Venezuelan Consulate in Houston. And I suggest you all do the same.

News back home

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I cannot believe that the president Chavez is still saying that the opposition i Venezuela is the one organizing the marches against him...
I saw the news about Venezuela and the marches against the new referendum and the government was saying that the students are guilty of violence and that the opposition is behind all of these...
Can you believe that? What opposition? everyone is gone and the ones who do not like Chavez are afraid... What opposition?

Would you come back?

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Would you come back to Venezuela? This is a question that almost everyone that I know asked me at least once. When I think about it, I mean about coming back to live in Venezuela, my first thought is yes, then I think a little more and say well may be, and at the end the answer for myself is I don’t know. There are too many things that need to change before I move back to Venezuela.

I would like to hear what other Venezuelans have to say about it. So if you are another Venezuelan living in the USA just leave a message and we can talk about coming back home.

Surviving in America

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When all immigrant come to America they go through so many difficulties and many of them wants to go back to their homeland. As a Venezuelan in America I understand this very well.

Many times we want to go back because this country is not the way we imagined it would be. For many of us we thought that every one will welcome you and help with whatever it is you need. We thought that this country was the paradise for good manner, beautiful and well educated people, because every American was in that way. I do not know why (may be I know why and I blame it on the false advertisement of the media) but we had the wrong idea, and many times because of that false image of America that we brought here from our countries of origin we do not want to fight the battles for survivor in America. Many of us go through depression and what people call cultural shock, but what else is left in our countries? In the case of Venezuela we have no much left; we had a lot of problems with the government, corruption, crime, insecurity, unemployment, etc.

When I look back and feel lonely for the people that I miss and compare with what I have here, this gives me the courage to keep fighting to survive as another one of the millions of immigrants in America, as another Venezuelan in America.

Comming back Home II

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In my first post I mentioned that when I when back home after being here for three years some things where untouched, some few things were better, some other were real bad. I want to share with you today the things that were untouched.

The sense of humor of the Venezuelan people is one of the greatest that you can find. That definitely did not change, because even when we are going through the most difficult times we still can laugh of the bad things and joke about it, whoever can laugh of their sorrows, that person can deal better with the burdens of life.

Other thing that has not change is the people itself. Venezuelan had such a great heart to receive everyone and laugh with them, no racial issues, always looking for the newest thing and the coolest in every aspect of life, and that is something that not even Hugo Chavez can change.

Coming back Home

For the last four and a half years I have been living in the US. I could not go back to visit my homeland for three years and a half and I was shock to see how the country had changed. Some things where untouched, some few things were better, some other were real bad….

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