Venezuelan migrants home for Christmas face insecurity as country's economic woes continue

Government

(25 Dec 2025) RESTRICTION SUMMARY: ASSOCIATED PRESS Maracay, Venezuela - 24 December 2025 1. Various of Mariela Gómez getting her hair styled for Christmas dinner 2. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Mariela Gomez, returned migrant: "We had a modest dinner, not quite what we’d hoped for, but at least we had food on the table. The thing it's that here is quite expensive to make hallacas (traditional Venezuelan Christmas dish). And as we are still unemployed we couldn't make them." 3. Various of meal