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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. Various of couple sitting together on a bench
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Caracas, Venezuela – 14 June 2024
3. Graduates at university
4. Pedro Requena, accountant, speaking with AP journalist
5. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Pedro Requena, accountant:
"Venezuelans adapt to everything and you also have to adapt to this. Now at the beginning of a relationship you have to ask: Are you leaving the country? Do you have plans to leave or something? To check where things stand.”
6. Kelybel Sivira, 29, taking a selfie before graduation ceremony
7. Sivira posing for pictures alongside friends
8. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Kelybel Sivira, commercial lawyer, 29:
"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."
9. Couple playing around on the floor at university
10. Various of Gabriel Ortiz speaking to AP journalist
11. 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 living at home 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."
12. Ortiz speaking
13. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Gabriel Ortiz, student:
"Maybe that’s why there are so many people who are single and prefer to have peace of mind. For example, right now I want to concentrate on my studies, my family, maybe get a job and have that personal growth. Right now, apart from studying, I train at a gym. It’s like self-love.”
14. Various of Ortiz walking at university
STORYLINE:
Pedro Requena is leaving the door open for a reconciliation with an ex-girlfriend. Kelybel Sivira is giving herself six months to decide the future of a four-year relationship. Gabriel Ortiz is focusing on himself after an almost-relationship left him with self-doubt.
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.
Accountant Pedro Requena has seen many friends leave Venezuela, but the news hit differently when the woman he had spent three “incredible” months dating in 2021 told him she was soon moving with her mom to Turkey.
Requena, 26, was swooning over her, but he was committed to finishing his undergrad degree and did not consider migrating with her.
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