People fleeing Venezuela because of personal and/or legal uncertainty, commodity shortages and the political crisis are usually between 25 and 45 years years old - and belong to the upper-lower middle class. However, some analysts warn that the phenomenon can be moved to lower social strata.
Antonio Bernal, an analyst and professor of constitutional law at the University of Panama, said that thousands of Venezuelans came, at first, to be an entrepreneur. He explained that according to current official statistics, residing approximately 37,000 Venezuelans. "The vast majority are people who have a job, some are wealthy, unlike migration we've had from other countries like Colombia or the Dominican," he says.
The immigration agency recorded that there are over 233,000 Venezuelans who went to the Isthmus of Panama as visitors or to work in 2013, a marked increase to be compared with the 147,000 who did so in 2010.
Venezuelans seeking work in Panama usually enter on tourist visas and then change their situation.
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