Published: 10 January 2020
Last updated: 4 March 2024
THESE SITUATIONS ARE not out of the ordinary in Venezuela, whose once flourishing economy has collapsed over the last few years as the country has been mired in a political crisis. Poor living conditions — including a rise in professional kidnappings alongside shortages of food and medicine — have led millions of Venezuelans to flee.
“We were putting our families at risk,” said Nichols, 43, who served as president of the Hebraica, the Caracas Jewish community centre, from 2012 to 2014.
“We have three children and they were getting to be teenagers, where we knew they would want to start going out with friends and going to the mall and doing the things that teenagers do, and we felt that it was no longer safe for them.”
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Photo: The Michael-Ann Russell Jewish Community Centre in Miami is popular among Latin American Jews (Josefin Dolsten)
