Three Deltan citizens shared their decision to migrate to Brazil and Trinidad and Tobago from Tucupita last Saturday, May 3 in search of better living conditions after the national government announcement only to increase a bonus and not the salary.
These people said they decided to migrate by not seeing increased salary in Venezuela. The National Government only increased the Bonus against the Economic War to $ 120, but this does not affect the salary of the workers, thus adding three consecutive years without increasing the salary of 130 bolivars since 2022.
Abraham Palacios, one of the deltanos who recently migrated to Brazil, told Radio Fe y Alegría News that this situation was motivated to make the decision to leave the country. Palacios, who has three children, explained that his salary as a vigilant of an institution of the Ministry of Education in Tucupita does not reach him to maintain them.
Abraham has Santa Catarina destination, a border Brazil area with Argentina, where his younger brother and cousins await him. According to him, in that Brazilian area there are job opportunities in companies that offer wages of up to 2,000 reais, equivalent to about 350 dollars, which would allow him to support economically.
-Abraham Palacios helped him financially to pay for his passage from Tucupita to Pacaraima to final destination in Santa Catarina. Although he traveled alone, he also plans to take his family.
father and son migrated due to lack of salary increase
On the other hand, Camilo Pérez said that he migrated with his son Julian to Trinidad and Tobago, also motivated that there was no salary increase last week in the framework of the Day of the Worker.
Pérez, who received a benefit under contract for the mayor of Tucupita, decided to leave the country in search of better opportunities.
Currently, father and son work in the field reaping chili peppers, onions and other Aliños in Trinidad. In this work, each earns 200 dollars biweekly.
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