Spain has emerged as a destination of choice for many Venezuelans of means.
People visit a Venezuelan shop in Madrid’s Mercado de Maravillas on May 8. By James McAuley and James McAuley Foreign correspondent focusing on French and European politics and culture Email Bio Follow Pamela Rolfe May 14 at 12:04 PM MADRID — Waiting in the Caracas airport, standing next to a pile of luggage that contained all her belongings, Mercedes Vázquez didn’t cry.
In the airport last fall, she feared that the guards would stop her for some arbitrary reason. “They can say things like, ‘You have bags under your eyes, so you must be on drugs. We’re taking you to the hospital.’ ” But they let her through. Nine hours later, Vázquez landed in Madrid, a city she had not seen since she was a young woman.
Still, it can be difficult to reconnect with a homeland that for so long was little more than a distant memory. “I have a certain feeling for Spain — the social services, the quality of life,” Vázquez said, sitting in a Madrid cafe last month. “But I don’t like soccer, and I don’t like bulls. I don’t like standing at a bar and eating. I’m going to die a Venezuelan.”
But his father briefly served Franco, and de la Nuez recently traveled to Ferrol, the small town in Galicia where Franco was born and where his childhood home is frequently vandalized. What he was looking for, exactly, he could not say. Meanwhile, the Guaidó team functions like a start-up, he said. “My offices are the wonderful Viennese cafes. And my drivers are Uber drivers.”
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