CHICAGO DEFENDER — Soledad Álvarez Velasco is an Ecuadorian socio-anthropologist, human geographer and assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology and Latin American and Latino Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago. We discussed the history of Venezuelan migration to the United States and the historical and political climate that has all but forced its citizens to migrate across the Americas. This is part 1 of our interview. 

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