“They use us. Some use us as pawns in their political schemes, and others as collateral damage.”

This is how Adelys Ferro, who works at an NGO that advocates for the rights of Venezuelan immigrants, sums up the feelings of many Venezuelans living abroad after witnessing the growing tension between Venezuela and the United States, amid US President Donald Trump’s war gestures and Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro’s call for militias to “defend the homeland.”

There is a thread that connects all the Venezuelans who spoke to CNN in Buenos Aires, Madrid and the United States. Although they are far away, they are accompanied by fear and concern about what might happen in their country, where many of them still have their families. And while they have not lost hope that the situation in Venez

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