The another Venezuelan transition in Peruvian territory

 On Sunday, January 5th, as I logged in my Twitter account, I found a nice surprise – a bunch of Peruvian and Venezuelan folks decided to create a kind of community for exchanging safe information, and they have included me  in the contacts list. Thanks about and because the decision, at the moment, increased my number of organic followers.

As I’m understanding that idea, Peruvians and Venezuelans have to fuse in an only information flow, what seems great to me because this is what we pretended since the very first time who started to interest researching academically (not gossip), or publishing about the migration issue, something that in other countries means specialized departments in the big media, but that in Peru, as other Latin American countries (emphasizing in South American ones), we have seen more in the edge of panic instead the wide level of the opportunity.

Although there are media those have decided explicitically to explore the issue and educate the Peruvian audience as well as the migrant Venezuelan one, the true is that our trend to sensationalism (and I’m not only talking about the media but the consumers, especially) makes we to focus more on the stories those the Venezuelan is a briber, but not on the ones those the Venezuelan is a changing agent, like that pretty initiative to decorate a bridge with beautiful Christmas features in Lima Downtown (thanks about!), or the story that Telemundo Network just released about a symphonic orchestra, Lima too, formed by pure Venezuelan migrants. And I match to the Mexican anchorwoman Felicidad Aveleira (migrant in the U.S.) that it sounds great, because it actually sounds great.

Have we seen that story on Peruvian media? I give it to you there as homework, like Judith Grace, another Mixican migrant who highlighted as a hostess on the Hispanic-American TV, used to say.

In fact, who has watched Hispanic TV in that nation, rarely will meet a Hispanic born in the U.S. as part of the talent. The most are migrants every combination. A random example? Vanessa Hawk, a Peruvian-Colombian journalist, working in Telemundo, as well as Luis Carlos Vélez, who came to highlight in CNN en Español and Telemundo, and who is now back in Colombia leading La FM, after a brilliant job in Noticias Caracol. And the examples continue.

 But, let’s get back to the initiative I was included. The motivated-to-legally-progress Venezuelan migrants start to understand that the ghettos only serve to feed the prejudge based upon a rare mix of fascination by the physical beauty and rejection at the same time because that standard seemms to be unreachable for the African-Andean somatotype. Prejudge, lowreacted/overreacted self-esteem, low adaptability to change, if we want to see it in psychological and sociological terms, in the side of the Peruvians, I mean.

So, that is the context we have analyzed untireless in the last two or three years. OK, we already know that. What comes here up to forward? Let’s start saying  that despite the best intention that the President sentimentally accepted  by the international community that tags Nicolás Maduro as a dictator, and I referring to Juan Guaidó, can have, the expulsion of the Castro-Chavism as a government model is difficult. It is not finished in Cuba yet (although it has been kept), quite more complicated in the own Venezuela, so, as a Cuban psychologist living in the U.S. (another migrant) said, we will take to adapt or to die trying.

Then, the agenda we take to manage together is leaving the discrimination mode and crossing inmediatly to the planning mode. Now that we know in proffessional terms, Peruvians and Venezuelans can turn Peru in a scientific-educational-sport-managing potence, the question is what part of the economy we do activate to grow a little more, and those benefits impact across the national territory (not leaving out the need of each migrant to help the family at the homeland).

We already have gotten it with other nationalities’ migrants. Why should it be different this time? Add to this, the projections of the international funding bank regarding to the migration in receiving countries, as Peru, is experiencing 1%-to-2% additional to the growth-domestic product in the next decade. Look, I don’t say we accept the migration because it will give us much money in the long term – what I say is the actual attitude of Peruvians and Venezuelans could put us in pause that development chance for everybody, because that scenario finally doesn’t depend on the good humor of an economist but the good attitude of everyone.

The next one to be hands working on and not to fear the interchange that is already producing in terms of professional and cultural learning. But to reach that magic scenario, the important right now is to make visible the existent talents in the fields they develop better, and the job of the media there, to mention one actor, will be to continue publishing the stories which have interesting ideas or successful cases, and make it respectfully, even provided the respect is gained. And the disclaimer goes beyond the nationality.

I’m enthusiastic wondering that little step on Twitter could turn into a chance to reset the manner how interact the people from different origins, believes, likes, and colors inside a same geographic space. Precissely, the first big riches of any place is its diversity. Then, we have to follow exploring that way.

I don’t discard if some holyday, Maduro brings down, there will be Venezuelans who  want to come back their homeland. They’re alright. But, until that breaks –I don’t know if in this generation—,we will take to put an extra dish, and in reciprocity, putting an extra talent to serve our whole community.

Oh, by the way, I won’t vote for the ones or the candidatures with a xenophobic speech, and I would push you to discard them too. The lifetime experience verifies and proves that the discriminating people, in the long term, die alone.