(18 Jul 2024)
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Caracas, Venezuela – 12 April 2024
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1. Aerial view of Caracas
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Caracas, Venezuela – 26 June 2024
2. Couple sitting together on a bench
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Caracas, Venezuela – 14 June 2024
3. Graduates at university
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4. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Gabriel Ortiz, student:
"We were dating, it was getting to be a relationship, but I had to return to my home state, the state of Sucre in the east of the country. I was with my family and when I returned, in January, I also spent time with that person for a few days and then he gave me the news that he is leaving for the United States, that he is going with his family, that he is going to take advantage of the opportunity and honestly, it was hard."
5. Kelybel Sivira, 29, taking a selfie before graduation ceremony
6. Sivira posing with pictures alongside friends
7. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Kelybel Sivira, commercial lawyer, 29:
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"I think the most complicated thing is that people keep leaving. We’re in a constant exodus and very few people have returned. Those of us who stay are stuck with this dilemma: are we going to leave or stay? And maintaining a long-distance relationship is extremely complicated."
8. Couple sitting together, playing around, at university
STORYLINE:
Gabriel Ortiz is focusing on himself after an almost-relationship left him with self-doubt.
Kelybel Sivira is giving herself six months to decide the future of a four-year relationship.
Heartbreak is common in young people, but not the cause behind many of them these days in Venezuela: migration.
Nothing, not even love, has been spared from the uncertainty that plagues everyday life in Venezuela, and as the next presidential election approaches, young people are reconsidering romantic relationships.
Others are wondering when it is too soon or too late to ask the crucial question: Will you leave the country?
More than 7.7 million Venezuelans have left the country, settling primarily in Latin America and the Caribbean.
A nationwide poll conducted in April by the Venezuela-based research firm Delphos showed that roughly a fourth of people are thinking about migrating, primarily for economic reasons.
The country that once welcomed Europeans fleeing war and Colombians escaping a bloody internal conflict has now pushed out about a quarter of its population.
Kelybel Sivira, 29, says half her graduating class has left the country.
In turn, the dating pool for her generation shrank.
Sivira, a commercial lawyer, reconnected online with a former classmate in May 2021, after he had already migrated to the U.S. with his family.
Their friendly conversations overtime turned romantic, and they became boyfriend-girlfriend toward the end of 2022.
They have not seen each other in person for years nor do they know when they will finally be able to hold hands.
AP Video by Juan Arraez
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