“There’s always fewer people who leave than those who say they plan to,” he said. “A quarter of the population of Venezuela has left already, so it’s unlikely we’re going to see a massive flow overnight of people fleeing. It could be a continuous trickle over the next few years, not the massive outflow we once saw.”
The larger migration of Venezuelans happened between 2017 and 2019, when millions of people left mostly to other countries across Latin America.
Close to 3 million Venezuelans have now settled in neighboring Colombia and 1.5 million in Peru.
So many Venezuelans have left the country since Chavez. I suspect a lot of Venezuelans still in Venezuela can’t afford to move
Thanks for quoting the elephant in the room. We’ve seen these sorts of polls stateside in 2016, one of which suggested 28% of U.S. residents were considering moving to Canada in the event of a Trump win.
That happened, but the exodus did not.
