By Bloomberg News, Bloomberg News

Economic collapse and political repression drove up to a third of Venezuela’s population to flee over the past decade. Some are now returning home and reembracing loved ones on Venezuelan soil.

This is not the way it was supposed to happen.

Venezuela’s top opposition leader has long vowed to reunite families by restoring democracy. That goal remains elusive. Although the dire economic conditions that fueled the exodus have eased, the country is still a political pariah and military tensions with the US are rising fast.

Some Venezuelans are making the costly trek home anyway. For many, diaspora life has proved disappointing, even hostile in the US, where the Trump administration is revoking legal protections, rounding up immigrants and accelerating depo

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