\u201cWe came to the U.S., like many immigrants, for a better life,\u201d she said. \u201cNow, here I am with my own business.\u201d <\/p>\n
Her Venezuelan roots are at her core, even influencing Carupano Kitchen\u2019s menu of arepas and other items inspired by family recipes. So, she was devastated when she learned about the earthquakes that rocked the country. <\/p>\n
\u201cWith everything that is happening right now, Venezuela is not only near to my heart and dear to my heart, it’s home,\u201d she said. \u201cIt’s home to my family, my brother, my dad, my parents\u2019 business, so many friends.\u201d<\/p>\n
The country\u2019s infrastructure was already struggling before the earthquakes. Additionally, the people are distrustful of the government and Venezuelan leaders.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe don\u2019t have a system that works, like firefighters and police that we trust and military that we trust. They have suppressed our people for so long that we don\u2019t trust the system. It\u2019s a scary time,\u201d Osorio said. \u201cAt the same time, through the madness, we\u2019re seeing Venezuelans really show up for each other \u2026 The people doing the rescue work are civilians.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cWe came to the U.S., like many immigrants, for a better life,\u201d she said. \u201cNow, here I am…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":321941,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-321940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=321940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321940\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/321941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}