Venezuelans build new life in Spain, fret for homeland


  • World
  • Thursday, 14 Mar 2019

Arelis Morales, 30, and Jose Martinez, 31, spend time with Arelis's family during a goodbye gathering at her grandmother's house in Cotiza, Caracas, Venezuela January 12, 2019. REUTERS/Ana Maria Arevalo Gosen

XINZO DE LIMIA, Spain (Reuters) - Until January, Jose Martinez and his wife Arelis Morales were in the eye of Venezuela's political storm: he worked for an opposition leader, she advised human rights groups.

But after years of opposing President Nicolas Maduro's increasingly repressive leftist government - including 2017 protests that ended with 125 deaths - they decided to put family life first.

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