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Texas Could Help Venezuelans Escape a Dictatorship
When I moved from Venezuela to Texas in my mid-twenties, so much felt unfamiliar. I missed the tropical green hues of Caracas, the relief of afternoon showers during the rainy season, the hordes of frogs and insects that provided the soundtrack to my evenings. In Austin, every yard was brown, every afternoon hot; nights were eerily quiet.During my first tour of the University of Texas campus, on a scorching September day in 2006, we stopped to visit Santa Rita No. 1. The oil rig had been partially relocated to the campus from West Texas, to commemorate the first well drilled on public lands that the Legislature had set aside to benefit the state’s universities. Standing there, I saw something I could recognize from back home:…The post Texas Could Help Venezuelans Escape a Dictatorship appeared first on Texas Monthly.