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I have never seen this many people flee a country that isn’t engaged in some kind of war. They’re largely educated.

They’re sending goods home.

The stories you hear are awful.

Are you talking about firsthand accounts? Because Venezuela in the last decade has seen close to 20% of their population leave [1]. Argentina's emigration is nowhere near those numbers (yet).

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venezuelan_refugee_crisis

This is my account of Argentine immigrants in Australia. A country with, for most of my life, few immigrants from Argentina. Quite far from South America.

I still see more Colombians here than Venezuelans.

I live in Peru and the Venezuelan diaspora is enormous. We don't even border Venezuela but around 10% of our capital city are illegal immigrants from there. They're on every street corner, camping in tents by every hospital, etc. They've even made it to small remote towns 12 hours from the nearest city. I haven't met an Argentine except at Machu Picchu.

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