{"id":32086,"date":"2026-02-03T09:00:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T15:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/borderlessmag.org\/?p=32086"},"modified":"2026-04-01T09:59:58","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T14:59:58","slug":"entre-dos-paises-el-viaje-de-una-venezolana-en-busca-de-seguridad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/borderlessmag.org\/es\/2026\/02\/03\/between-two-countries-inside-a-venezuelan-womans-journey-to-find-safety\/","title":{"rendered":"Entre Dos Pa\u00edses: La Traves\u00eda de una Mujer Venezolana en Busca de Seguridad"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t\t<div id=\"fws_69d256d92c8b4\"  data-column-margin=\"default\" data-midnight=\"dark\"  class=\"wpb_row vc_row-fluid vc_row\"  style=\"padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; \"><div class=\"row-bg-wrap\" data-bg-animation=\"none\" data-bg-animation-delay=\"\" data-bg-overlay=\"false\"><div class=\"inner-wrap row-bg-layer\" ><div class=\"row-bg viewport-desktop\"  style=\"\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"row_col_wrap_12 col span_12 dark left\">\n\t<div  class=\"vc_col-sm-2 vc_hidden-sm vc_hidden-xs wpb_column column_container vc_column_container col no-extra-padding inherit_tablet inherit_phone \"  data-padding-pos=\"all\" data-has-bg-color=\"false\" data-bg-color=\"\" data-bg-opacity=\"1\" data-animation=\"\" data-delay=\"0\" >\n\t\t<div class=\"vc_column-inner\" >\n\t\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div> \n\n\t<div  class=\"vc_col-sm-8 wpb_column column_container vc_column_container col padding-3-percent inherit_tablet inherit_phone \"  data-padding-pos=\"all\" data-has-bg-color=\"false\" data-bg-color=\"\" data-bg-opacity=\"1\" data-animation=\"\" data-delay=\"0\" >\n\t\t<div class=\"vc_column-inner\" >\n\t\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\n<div class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element \" >\n\t<p><i>This story was supported by the <a href=\"https:\/\/braveofus.com\/\">Brave of Us<\/a> campaign.\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Editor\u2019s note[2\/03]: Borderless Magazine has chosen not to publish the interviewee&#8217;s full name to protect the individual\u2019s safety and privacy and use her first initial, R, for reference. <\/i><i>For questions, please contact us at info@borderlessmag.org.\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Venezuelan national, R, 62, and her son returned to her home country after her<a href=\"https:\/\/borderlessmag.org\/2026\/01\/26\/temporary-protected-status-expiring-tps\/\"> Temporary Protected Status (TPS) expired<\/a> in November while living in Chicago.<\/p>\n<p>To avoid deportation, they made a long journey back to Venezuela in December. Just three weeks later, Venezuela\u2019s authoritarian leader Nicol\u00e1s Maduro was captured and taken to the U.S.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n\t\t<div id=\"fws_69d256d92dc16\"  data-column-margin=\"default\" data-midnight=\"dark\"  class=\"wpb_row vc_row-fluid vc_row vc_row-o-equal-height vc_row-flex vc_row-o-content-middle large top_margin_20px bottom_margin_20px\"  style=\"padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; \"><div class=\"row-bg-wrap\" data-bg-animation=\"none\" data-bg-animation-delay=\"\" data-bg-overlay=\"true\"><div class=\"inner-wrap row-bg-layer\" ><div class=\"row-bg viewport-desktop\"  style=\"\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"row-bg-overlay row-bg-layer\" style=\"background: ##FFFFFF; background: linear-gradient(90deg,##FFFFFF 0%,##FFFFFF 100%);  opacity: 1; \"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"row_col_wrap_12 col span_12 dark left\">\n\t<div  class=\"vc_col-sm-12 wpb_column column_container vc_column_container col padding-3-percent force-phone-text-align-center inherit_tablet inherit_phone border_top_desktop_1px border_bottom_desktop_1px border_color_000000 border_style_solid \"  data-padding-pos=\"all\" data-has-bg-color=\"false\" data-bg-color=\"\" data-bg-opacity=\"1\" data-animation=\"\" data-delay=\"0\" >\n\t\t<div class=\"vc_column-inner\" >\n\t\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t<div id=\"fws_69d256d92e335\" data-midnight=\"\" data-column-margin=\"default\" class=\"wpb_row vc_row-fluid vc_row inner_row vc_row-o-equal-height vc_row-flex vc_row-o-content-middle\"  style=\"\"><div class=\"row-bg-wrap\"> <div class=\"row-bg\" ><\/div> <\/div><div class=\"row_col_wrap_12_inner col span_12  left\">\n\t<div  class=\"vc_col-sm-7 wpb_column column_container vc_column_container col child_column no-extra-padding inherit_tablet inherit_phone \"   data-padding-pos=\"all\" data-has-bg-color=\"false\" data-bg-color=\"\" data-bg-opacity=\"1\" data-animation=\"\" data-delay=\"0\" >\n\t\t<div class=\"vc_column-inner\" >\n\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\n<div class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element \" >\n\t<h3 id=\"news-that-puts-power-under-the-spotlight-and-communities-at-the-center\"><strong>News that puts power under the spotlight and communities at the center.<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Sign up for our free newsletter and get updates twice a week. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n\t\t<\/div> \n\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div> \n\n\t<div style=\"margin-top: -20px; \" class=\"vc_col-sm-5 wpb_column column_container vc_column_container col child_column neg-marg no-extra-padding inherit_tablet inherit_phone \"   data-padding-pos=\"all\" data-has-bg-color=\"false\" data-bg-color=\"\" data-bg-opacity=\"1\" data-animation=\"\" data-delay=\"0\" >\n\t\t<div class=\"vc_column-inner\" >\n\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\n\t<div class=\"wpb_raw_code wpb_raw_html wpb_content_element\" >\n\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"_form_1\"><\/div><script src=\"https:\/\/borderlessmag.bluelena.io\/f\/embed.php?id=1\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t<\/div> \n\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div> \n<\/div><\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div> \n<\/div><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element \" >\n\t<p>Before leaving Venezuela, R was an activist who spoke out against Maduro\u2019s regime.<\/p>\n<p>Now, she no longer dares to do so.<\/p>\n<p>Maduro\u2019s regime continues to surveil residents at checkpoints throughout the country and monitor communication, especially of those who oppose his regime, she says.<\/p>\n<p>Borderless Magazine spoke to R about what led her to return to Venezuela and her thoughts on Maduro&#8217;s capture.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"growing-up-in-a-different-venezuela\">Growing up in a different Venezuela<\/h2>\n<p>I was born in Venezuela, raised in Caracas in the 60s and 70s. I loved music and singing, so I left to study baroque music in Montreal, Canada. When I finished, I returned to my country. Back then, I was at peace in Venezuela. It was safe, so there was no need for me to leave.<\/p>\n<p>Upon my return, I found a job, got married and had two kids.<\/p>\n<p>Just two years after my second child was born, Hugo Ch\u00e1vez won the presidential election, and everything changed. The socioeconomic decline was notorious.<\/p>\n<p>The government began seizing private properties. Inflation rose. Everything became expensive.<\/p>\n<p>After I got a divorce, I could not afford a place of my own for my kids and me.<\/p>\n<p>I worked at a publishing house and taught music and sang on the side to make ends meet.<\/p>\n<p>Then the publishing house shut down, like many other businesses in Venezuela. I then worked at a book distributor, but it still was not enough, so my parents helped me buy an apartment for my family.<\/p>\n<p>During this time \u2014 since Ch\u00e1vez took office \u2014 I consistently protested. At marches, the national guard would disperse protesters with tear gas bombs, pepper spray and water cannons.<\/p>\n<p>In 2015, my children left. We were anxious about the immense insecurity they were seeing in Caracas. I encouraged them to leave Venezuela because I was always nervous about their safety.<\/p>\n<p>My daughter left for Spain, and my son skipped his high school graduation and went to the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>The following year, my friends in Miami encouraged me not to remain alone in Venezuela. Given how little I was making at my job, I realized it was no longer worth staying. So I left and made a series of trips, visiting friends and family in Florida, Illinois, Colombia and Spain on tourist visas, before eventually returning to Venezuela.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div> \n\n\t<div  class=\"vc_col-sm-2 vc_hidden-sm vc_hidden-xs wpb_column column_container vc_column_container col no-extra-padding inherit_tablet inherit_phone \"  data-padding-pos=\"all\" data-has-bg-color=\"false\" data-bg-color=\"\" data-bg-opacity=\"1\" data-animation=\"\" data-delay=\"0\" >\n\t\t<div class=\"vc_column-inner\" >\n\t\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div> \n<\/div><\/div>\n\t\t<div id=\"fws_69d256d9301d7\"  data-column-margin=\"default\" data-midnight=\"dark\"  class=\"wpb_row vc_row-fluid vc_row\"  style=\"padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; \"><div class=\"row-bg-wrap\" data-bg-animation=\"none\" data-bg-animation-delay=\"\" data-bg-overlay=\"false\"><div class=\"inner-wrap row-bg-layer\" ><div 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class=\"sep\">\u00b7<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"pk-meta-date meta-date\"><a href=\"https:\/\/borderlessmag.org\/es\/2024\/07\/08\/chicago-migrants-venezuela-darian-gap-asylum-seekers-employement\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">julio 8, 2024<\/a><\/span>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/header><!-- .entry-header -->\n\t\t\t\t<\/div><!-- .post-inner -->\n\n\t\t\t<\/div><!-- .post-outer -->\n\t\t<\/article>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n\t\t<\/div> \n\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div> \n<\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element \" >\n\t<p>I used some of my savings, and my friends and children let me stay with them to avoid staying in Venezuela for extended periods.<\/p>\n<p>In 2017, I returned home from this long trip to a time when protests were extremely violent and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/world\/year-of-protests-and-crisis-in-volatile-venezuela-idUSKBN1DU1MZ\/\">killed many people<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The country looked worse than it had just the year prior. You could see the hunger in the streets. Many people were surviving by eating out of garbage cans and mangoes from the trees.\u00a0 It was as if nature knew what was happening because we had a big harvest of mangoes on the trees in the city that year.<\/p>\n<p>The deterioration of the people was alarming. People in the streets looked very thin. It was a horrible situation.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"finding-independence-in-the-u-s\">Finding independence in the U.S.<\/h2>\n<p>I didn\u2019t consider leaving Venezuela permanently because I didn\u2019t have anyone who could sponsor me for a visa to stay in the U.S. I didn\u2019t have a long-term plan to stay in Spain either. I always planned on returning to Venezuela.<\/p>\n<p>But, the whole country was deteriorating.<\/p>\n<p>During one of my extended visits to see my friends and family, the pandemic started, and I was stuck in Miami. While I was there, my tourist visa and my Venezuelan passport expired. Since we didn&#8217;t have Venezuelan embassies or consulates in the U.S., I wasn\u2019t able to get a new passport.<\/p>\n<p>A lawyer I was in touch with called me and said there would be Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Venezuelans. I applied and was granted it.<\/p>\n<p>I was able to start working with this status, so I worked in childcare until I moved to Chicago in 2022, where my son was.<\/p>\n<p>There, the Illinois Venezuelan Alliance helped me find a job at an immigrant support clinic, where I assisted people with completing their TPS and asylum paperwork.<\/p>\n<p>I had the opportunity to meet migrants from Venezuela who arrived in Chicago in a deplorable state. Some didn&#8217;t even know how to hold a pencil to write their own name, and the children I met were in truly sad and painful situations.<\/p>\n<p>In my job, I was in contact with many people in this field, and I learned a lot about various cases during the height of immigration enforcement action in Chicago last year. I learned about horrible cases of families being separated and the violent use of force by immigration agents.<\/p>\n<p>I was terrified that ICE (United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement) would grab me, take me somewhere unknown, deport me, even though I still had a valid TPS. The whole situation scared me too much.<\/p>\n<p>I had been at peace in Chicago. I was able to work. I was independent. But my work permit was ending and persecution began. So when my TPS expired, I decided to go back.<\/p>\n<p>After eight years of living in the U.S., I had to give away all my belongings and plan my return to Venezuela.<\/p>\n<p>The trip was expensive because, since sanctions against Venezuela began a few years ago, there have been no direct commercial flights between the United States and Venezuela.<\/p>\n<p>I had to do a lot of logistical work to plan my trip back because Venezuelan nationals cannot fly into Venezuela with an expired passport.<\/p>\n<p>So I ended up flying from Chicago to Bogot\u00e1, from Bogot\u00e1 to the border. From there, I took a taxi into Venezuela, then flew to Caracas. It was a two-day journey.<\/p>\n<p>My apartment looked just like when I had left it, thinking I\u2019d be back soon.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"since-maduros-capture\">Since Maduro\u2019s capture<\/h2>\n<p>I always stayed informed about news from Venezuela, even during the eight years I was in the United States, so I knew an attack could happen at any moment.<\/p>\n<p>At 2:00 a.m. on Jan. 3, I was still awake when I heard a super loud explosion and thought it was fireworks. I went out onto the balcony and immediately realized it wasn&#8217;t fireworks.<\/p>\n<p>I immediately understood what was happening when I saw the helicopters from my balcony.<\/p>\n<p>A couple of hours later, Trump announced that they had captured Nicol\u00e1s Maduro. I heard shouts of joy, banged pots and pans, but that didn\u2019t last long. A deathly silence followed.<\/p>\n<p>There was absolutely no movement when dawn broke that day. The next day, I found out that one of the supermarkets nearby increased its prices. There was nothing on the highways or the more distant streets. Everyone was sheltering at home.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know if I&#8217;d dare to do as much activism as I did previously.<\/p>\n<p>Now, people are more cautious. There are checkpoints everywhere to search people and go through their cell phones.<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t keep photos on my cellphone or show any sign of celebrating Maduro\u2019s fall.<\/p>\n<p>Basically, in Chicago, ICE was after us, and here, the government is after us, too. We&#8217;re always hiding.<\/p>\n<p>For now, I\u2019ll stay home and keep a low profile. I may find work teaching English or music.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t expect things to improve soon or for the change to be very favorable. There&#8217;s going to be a lot of political tension. I don&#8217;t know exactly how things will unfold.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s something no one can know for sure: whether they&#8217;re truly paving the way for a transition and the return to the country the people of Venezuela demanded as president, so that we can return to a democratic country like we once were.<\/p>\n<p><i>The interviewee\u2019s words have been translated from Spanish by Aydali Campa.\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Aydali Campa is a Report for America corps member and covers environmental justice and immigrant communities for Borderless Magazine. Email Aydali at aydali@borderlessmag.org.\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>This story was produced using Borderless Magazine\u2019s collaborative as-told-to method. 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