The huge exodus of Venezuelans since 2013 is one of the most striking features of the gigantic disaster that the government of Nicolás Maduro has meant for Venezuela. The total figures of the stampede vary, from those provided by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, UNHCR, to those provided by the National Survey of Living Conditions, Encovi; However, in the quinquennium less than three million people have fled, 10% of the total population. A true record because no interracial, religious or political war has been unleashed in the country. Migration has occurred in a period of peace, unless the plagiarism claim that the bourgeoisie unleashed an economic war against the government is accepted as true.
During the years 2016 and 2017, according to the most recent UNHCR report, asylum applications, one of the most used formulas to legally emigrate, have been distributed as follows: 58,764 in the United States; 22,357 in Brazil; 20,348 in Peru and 12,848 in Spain. According to the same report, 350,861 emigrants have been received in other countries under figures other than asylum: Chile: 84,479; Colombia: 68,764; Ecuador 50,502. According to the calculations of Tomás Páez, in Spain there are only at least 250,000 Venezuelans; while towards Italy, around 50,000 have been displaced. According to the Colombian Department of Migration, there are not less than 500,000 Venezuelans in the Neo-Granadian nation. For other sources, in the United States the total number of compatriots exceeds half a million, in small Panama more than 70,000 compatriots live, and in Argentina, 50,000. Even in Australia, New Zealand and Singapore appear traces of Venezuelans who have gone to these distant and strange lands.
Where Venezuelans who escape the horror of 21st century socialism have not gone is Cuba. There is no documentary record that certifies that a Venezuelan has gone to the Caribbean island to find a better life and realize their dreams of progress and welfare. Not a single countryman has requested political asylum in the territory tyrannized by the Castros for sixty years. It would be leaving Guatemala to fall in Guatepeor. Except for Ecuador, which has very special conditions, among which its economy is dollarized, no other country member of the Alba is selected by Venezuelans to reside. Neither Bolivia nor Nicaragua receives continuous and growing flows of compatriots.
Venezuelans know very well where to go: they move towards nations with market economies in full expansion and growth. They choose the United States, Panama, Spain, Chile, Brazil or Peru (hopefully the defenestration of Pedro Pablo Kuczynski does not unleash a voracious crisis), where economic freedom predominates, property rights are respected and free initiative promoted, not There is control of changes, or prices, the gains of workers are protected in a climate where the labor market prevails, without anything resembling labor immovability, increases in wages and salaries are promoted by unions and unions in negotiations with private employers or with the government, and productivity and inflation are taken as a reference for agreements. They are nations where the intervention of the State in the economy is minimal. Where professionalization and meritocracy are promoted. Globalization is not seen as a threat, but as an opportunity. The relationship with the United States is not established in terms of rivalry, but of respectful agreements in which trading nations obtain mutual benefits.
By drawing up the map of the countries to which hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans emigrate, it can be observed that they are societies placed at the antipodes of mistrust such as 21st century socialism. For example, Chile, Spain (recovered after the wrongs caused by José L. Rodríguez Zapatero), the United States and Panama, appear in high places in the Index of Economic Freedom. Panama ranks highest in Latin America, followed closely by Chile.
No Venezuelan has the mind to emigrate to Cuba. Even nations with a certain sustained growth during the last two decades, such as Bolivia and Nicaragua, are not attractive. Authoritarianism and institutional fragility represent dangers that are too high. The resemblance to what happens in Venezuela crushes any intention to land in those parts.
Nicolás Maduro knows the data I have presented succinctly. But, you do not care. He wants the Venezuelans to leave in order to be able to impose, along with his clique, the socialism of the 21st century, with the comfort of distributing crumbs and having control of the Armed Forces. Attracting those who have fled will be a great challenge.
This post is a translation into English of a post published by me with user steemit 
https://steemit.com/busy/@betzaquevedo/a-donde-va-el-exodo-venezolano