More than eight million Venezuelans living abroad are calling for representation in the National Assembly, a goal that would require a constitutional amendment along with electoral and institutional reforms.
Discrepancies in official deportation figures cast doubt on widely publicized records and suggest that thousands of cases are missing from public statistics.
Without reconciliation between the Venezuela within and the Venezuela abroad, social fragmentation will continue to limit any attempt at sustainable national reconstruction.
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.
