I may be.
In this corner of the Left Coast, conservative women are as rare as unicorns. :-)
Posted on 11/17/2007 10:15:04 PM PST by grundle
Now that he's calling for a referendum to reform the Constitution, including eliminating term limits for heads of state, this country is seeing a migration of middle-class residents who say they are fleeing economic and political instability and persistent crime.
"We never thought of living anywhere else. Venezuela is the most beautiful country in the world, and we have everything there. But if he reforms the Constitution, Venezuela is going to be a very dark place, and there is nothing we can do about it," says Lissette, tearing up. (She and Mervin did not want their family's last name published because they haven't left Venezuela for good yet.) "The truth is we need another option."
They are not alone. According to Luis Vicente Leon, the director of the polling company Datanalisis, 1 in 3 Venezuelans would consider leaving the country if they could. In addition to politics, they're driven by annual inflation of about 16 percent and a weakening national currency. Oil wealth has largely skipped over the middle class while blessing the rich and funding billion-dollar social programs.
The number of Venezuelans leaving is hard to nail down. According to the US Embassy in Caracas, the number of nonimmigrant visa cards has risen from 70,366 in 2003 to 109,586 last year.
But many Venezuelans are opting for other countries, as US immigration laws have tightened in the wake of 9/11. Nearby Panama, with a similar climate and political and economic stability, is a popular alternative.
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I think you’re in love.
Yes. Exactly what I said:
Denial of "Emmigration" rights means that you are under house arrest even though you have an invitation to come to my house or somebody else's house.
The operative words in the dictionary definition are "to leave", "to go".
You "emmigrate" (with an "E") FROM a country.
You "immigrate" (with an "I") INTO into a country.
A person that leaves China to permantly live in France is an "emmigrant" (with an "E") of Jamaica and an "immigrant" (with an "I") of France.
If French authorities deny that person permission to enter France, that person is being denied "immigration" (with an "I").
If Chinese authorities deny that person permission to leave China, that person is being denied "emmigration" (with an "E").
"Emmigration" (with an "E"), the right to leave your country unless you have violated some law, is considered a human right.
"Immigration" (with an "I"), the right to enter any particular country, is NOT considered a human right.
In social terms, if I deny you entry into my house, the equivalent of denial of "immigration" (with an "I"), I am perfectly within my rights.
However, if your husband forcibly prohibits you from leaving your house, the equivalent of denial of "emmigration" (with an "E"), he is commiting the crimminal act of kidnapping.
Zimbabwe with a Latin zest.
I may be.
In this corner of the Left Coast, conservative women are as rare as unicorns. :-)
Prepare for decades of declining quality of life in Venezuela and for endless propaganda blaming the horrible gringos for the bad things they’ve done to Venezuela, either secretly or if we ever put sanctions on them.
I’ve never understood the whole concept that the US putting an embargo on Cuba is the cause of their economic plight. I mean, OK, they can’t buy Chevy’s, but they can buy BMWs. What’s the problem? It’s just a convenient way for the left to blame the US for the failures of their much vaunted socialism.
“They should all stay in their own country and fight for their own freedom.”
If my point before was not clear, the decision to allow them in or not is not made by you nor I, but by our elected officials, who are quite happy to allow the border with mexico to serve as a conduit for illegals (those venezuelans would in the majority arrive with some sort of visa to MIA). This is our government doing everything possible to not change the status quo, thus my comment that tax sheep (taxpayers) do not influence policy in this area enough to alter the status quo (though the amnesty did fail).
The fight in their own country, incidentally, is lost, and probably has been since the national strike failed in late 2002.
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