Florida’s Venezuelan Diaspora Sees Trump as Best, Flawed Hope
- They’re wary of an American autocracy, but want Maduro gone
- Biden supporters ‘afraid to say it publicly,’ with rage rising
A Venezuelan flag sits on a car during an auto caravan at Doral Central Park in Doral, Florida, U.S., on Sept. 13.
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They left a divided and broken nation for one that’s divided and breaking.
Venezuelans came to South Florida to put the troubled nation behind them. Preparing to cast the first votes of their new lives as American citizens, they’re faced with a wrenching decision: whether to support Donald Trump, the U.S. president who has been the most vocal against their former tormentors, despite having strongman qualities of his own. Many of them are.