00:04My name is Marianela Silva, I was born in Maracaibo, Estado de Zulia.
00:13In Ureña I met my ex, who is the father of my daughters, with whom I had two princesses,
00:21one was 18 and the other was 21.
00:25I was unemployed because in 1999 I won Chávez and that is when I came to the proposal after a
00:32year,
00:33the proposal in digital, which is as clear here in Colombia.
00:38When I was going to complete almost three years, I began to see the massive despise in Venezuela,
00:43in private companies, and it was a great coincidence that in that massive despise,
00:48the first one who fell was I, and that for me was fatal.
00:53That day I was very sad because I had to give the news to my daughter that I was unemployed.
00:59My daughter, as always, gave me an inspiration, saying,
01:03Mom, you can, you are a rich woman, I know that she will get a better job.
01:10Those were the words of her.
01:12I started studying tax sciences.
01:16When I was in the fourth semester exactly, my daughter, she graduated from bachiller,
01:22Daly, and she went to study public education.
01:25So in one of those of my classes, we met in the bathroom.
01:28And I said,
01:31Oh, my baby, my little girl, my little girl, come here, baby.
01:35And she said, Mom, we are in the university, please, comport us.
01:38So it was very funny because both of us were studying her account,
01:43and I my tax sciences.
01:45The career I did not finish, because it was more of the scarcity and the problems in Venezuela.
01:53When I arrived to Ureña, who passed away from Colombia, I did my change from Bolívar's weight to weight.
02:03With all the amount of bills that I had, they gave me only three bills.
02:10I came prepared to work in the kitchen part with the famous empanadas and arepas venezolans.
02:19When I left my hands, I hugged my hands.
02:22I hugged my hands so strongly that I did not want to.
02:27I did not want to.
02:28I did not want to.
02:31I did not want to.
02:34And when my husband arrived, my husband arrived, well, I told him that he made his trámites.
02:42And that he could reach me, because I really loved him a lot.
02:47And I wanted to make that travesía together.
02:52And I asked him to take care of my children a lot.
02:56And from there I started my travesía as a company in Colombia.
03:02Because yes, I have to call him that way because I took my commerce camera.
03:07I made the trámites in the alcaldía to obtain a kiosk.
03:10It was not easy.
03:12More than all, my lema was empanadas con sabor a Venezuela.
03:16That was my lema.
03:17Empanadas con sabor a Venezuela.
03:18You said, ah, empanadas con sabor a Venezuela.
03:20And I tried it.
03:21Muchos hacen comentarios fuera de lugar, pero bueno, que empanadas de qué, de maduro.
03:27Y yo, bueno, si tengo empanadas de maduro, pero de plátano maduro, les digo así como para romper el hielo.
03:34Trato de no prestarle mucha atención a esos comentarios.
03:38Pero este comentario de esta señora me impactó.
03:41Llega esa señora de repente, se para frente a la vitrina y me dice, ah, empanadas venezolanas, ¿y de qué
03:48son?
03:48De hambre.
03:51Cuando ella, claro, yo me imagino que ella pensó que yo estaba llorando por lo que ella me estaba diciendo,
03:55pero no, yo no estaba llorando por lo que ella me dijo, sino por mi gente.
04:00O sea, decir empanadas de hambre, eso fue muy triste porque en mi país hay muchas personas que se cuentan
04:11sin comer.
04:11Si a veces pienso en mi familia, si se habrán desayunado, si habrán almorzado, si habrán cenado o si habrán
04:22conseguido algo.
04:24Entonces eso es demasiado triste, no debería ocurrir.
04:32Mira, de verdad que me siento muy agradecida con Colombia, con todas las personas buenas que me he encontrado.
04:40Quiero dar a conocer la gastronomía venezolana.
04:44Pero bueno, que no olviden que somos hermanos, que no lo olviden.
04:48Y que estamos para apoyarnos el uno al otro y para darnos la mano.
05:06Ingresa a www.somospanascolombia.com
05:10Y conoce más historias de venezolanos en Colombia.
05:12Apoya a CNUR.
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