While remittances break records and ease the economies of many countries in the region, millions of Latin American households are being reshaped around an absence that leaves social, educational, and emotional marks.
The exaltation of a selective Latinidad, celebrated as cultural inclusion, conceals internal hierarchies and deep inequalities in the migratory treatment of different Latin American communities.
Brazil went from being a humanitarian model in the face of the Venezuelan exodus to erecting barriers that turn protection into a filter and asylum into an exception.
**Translation:**
After Maduro’s fall, the big question is not only when Venezuelans will return, but whether a path of return truly exists after years of putting down roots.
