Romanian Venezuelans Explained

Group:	Romanian Venezuelans Rumano Venezolano Românii din Venezuela
Population:	1,500
Popplace:	Caracas
Languages:	Spanish (Venezuelan Spanish)Romanian
Religions:	Christianity (there is also a small group of Romanian Jews)
Related:	Venezuelan of European descent

Romanian Venezuelans are Venezuelans of Romanian descent or a Romania-born person who resides in Venezuela. The Romanian community in Venezuela is around 10,000 people.^[1] They are mostly immigrants who arrived in the country, like many other European nationalities, following the Second World War and the policies of the governments of the Warsaw Pact.^[2] Romanians became adjusted to Venezuelan society, because Romanian and Spanish belong to Romance languages, as well as Romanians' Latin identity.

During the Venezuelan refugee crisis, some Venezuelans of Romanian descent migrated to Romania.^[3]

Notable people

• Joana Benedek - model and telenovela actress.
• Jacques Braunstein - musician, economist, publicist and disc jockey.
• Paul Georgescu - hydraulic engineer. Emeritus professor of Simon Bolivar University.
• Sofia Imber - journalist and cultural promoter, creator of the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Caracas.
• Lya Imber - first woman in Venezuela to earn the degree of Doctor of Medical Sciences.
• Moisés Kaufman - playwright, director and founder of Tectonic Theater Project.
• Thea Segall - photographer

See also

• Romanian diaspora
• Immigration to Venezuela
• Romanian Orthodox Church of Caracas
• Venezuelans of European descent

Notes and References

1. Web site: America Latină . 2012-08-17 . dead . https://archive.today/20121221095635/http://www.dprp.gov.ro/america-latina/ . 2012-12-21 . Departamentul pentru Românii de Pretutindeni . ro.
2. Web site: Cruz. Edgar. 1997-05-02. La Iglesia ortodoxa rumana de Venezuela. UN TROZO DE LOS CÁRPATOS EN EL HATILLO. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20150722064702/http://www.eluniversal.com/1997/05/02/cul_art_02312A. 2015-07-22. 2015-07-22. El Universal. es.
3. Web site: Refugiat în propria țară: „Ori plec, ori mor!” Un tânăr din Venezuela a fugit de socialism în România, după ce, în urmă cu 70 de ani, bunicul lui român fugea de comunism în Venezuela!. Romanian.