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Cayman Compass journalist Daphne Ewing-Chow details this week’s front-page story, ‘From Caracas to Cayman: Why Venezuela matters here.’
The article uncovers the connections between the United States, Venezuela, Cuba, and Colombia, and how they impact us here in the Cayman Islands.
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From Caracas to Cayman: Why Venezuela matters here
When the news broke in the early hours of 3 Jan., Venezuelan Lucia Seijas was asleep in her home in the Cayman Islands. Her mother, still in Venezuela, had called the night before with a cryptic warning: “Sleep well, because it’s happening.”
By 5am, Seijas’s phone was ringing non-stop. By dawn, she was standing in her kitchen, scrolling through social media and exchanging messages in a WhatsApp group of around 60 Venezuelans who call Cayman home, trying to process what had once seemed impossible: Nicolás Maduro was no longer in power.
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