No jobs: Hundreds of Venezuelans return home from T&T

Hundreds of Venezuelans returned to their homeland on Sunday after being repatriated from Trinidad and Tobago.
At the eastern coast of Venezuela, on the port of Guanta, some 330 kilometers east from Caracas, a Venezuelan commercial ferry transported hundreds of Venezuelans who left Trinidad and Tobago for lack of employment due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Valentina Itriago, a repatriated Venezuelan, said she was unable to find work to care for her son:
"We returned because in Trinidad and Tobago we didn't have the capacity... I didn't have the capacity to take care of my son.  Jobs were scarce because of COVID, I had already been out of work for three months, rents were super expensive. It was time to return."
“The only way to work there is cleaning houses. I have an infection on my hands. No. I'm staying in my country. Don't think that being abroad is easy and even less so with a child. It is better to be here in Venezuela than to be abroad."
The Venezuelan government began a repatriation plan called "Return to the Fatherland" in 2018 and since then, more than 25,000 Venezuelans have been repatriated from other countries in the region such as Peru, Ecuador and Chile.
This return of Venezuelans from Trinidad and Tobago is the first voluntary repatriation to be done by sea - Loop News was told that 680 people Venezuelan nationals made the decision to return home. 
The process was monitored by officials as passengers were processed prior to departure last Friday. 
Minister of Foreign and CARICOM Affairs Dr Amery Browne, Minister of National Security Fitzgerald Hinds and Communications Minister Symon de Nobriga were also present to examine the logistics of the repatriation exercise.
Source: The Loop, July 19, 2021