Marc Malkin Senior Editor, Culture and Events Édgar Ramírez hasn’t traveled home to Venezuela in about seven years. “I can’t because I’m vocal against Maduro and the government,” the actor told me Tuesday at the “Borderlands” premiere in Hollywood just minutes after he posed on the red carpet holding the Venezuelan flag. “It hurts.
The capital punishment for the ancient Greeks wasn’t death — it was exile. You turn into an emotional zombie in a way. The pain of having to leave your country not because you want to, but because you’re forced to do it.
That’s why the immigration issue is so delicate because no one — no one! — wants to leave home. You want to see the world but no one wants to leave the world that they know.” Protests erupted in Venezuela shortly after President Nicolás Maduro declared he won reelection on July 28 over Edmundo González Urrutia.
Maduro’s critics — including the U.S. government — accused him of trying to steal the election, insisting that Urrutia won the popular vote by a wide margin. “Given the overwhelming evidence, it is clear to the United States and, most importantly, to the Venezuelan people that Edmundo González Urrutia won the most votes in Venezuela’s July 28 presidential election,” U.S.
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