For years, we looked to the Bolivarian experience with hope, recognizing it as an attempt to fight poverty and restore dignity to the native populations.
But time and the stories coming out of that part of the world forced us to face a different reality: militarization, repression, human rights violations, a country stuck in a crisis that seemed to have no way out.
Eight out of thirty million people were forced to leave Venezuela. An immense exodus, often on foot, towards Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru; only those with more resources managed to go further. This is not a “geopolitical fact”: these are bodies, stories, separated families.
Venezuelans in exile are not a single bloc. They have different political ideas, paths, and hopes. Reducing everything to an ideological opposition means erasing the complexity of a society that is now struggling to find a way out.
Recent political and international developments have reopened expectations and questions, but also new fears.
We do not want to replace these voices: we want to create a space where those who come from Venezuela can speak, tell their stories, contradict each other, express anger, hope, and disillusionment.
We believe that without listening there can be no solidarity, and without solidarity there can be no future.
A future that, if it is to exist, can only arise from the recomposition of the various components of Venezuelan society, not from removal or silence.
Città dell’Utopia
Via Valeriano 3f, Rome
Sunday, February 1
from 7 p.m. to 11 p.m.