Laura Arias, a Venezuelan mother with a heart in three countries
Laura Arias craddles her newborn daughter Alaia Montserrat. - PHOTO BY AYANNA KINSALE
For Laura Arias, Mother s Day this year will be bittersweet. She will celebrate the day with her newborn baby, but she would only be able to see her other two children via video call. While Arias is in Trinidad, one of her children is in her homeland, Venezuela, and one is in Colombia.
Their children in different countries is a reality faced by hundreds of Venezuelan migrant women.
Arias s daughter, Fabiola Valentina, is 11; her son, Diego Alejandro is seven. The baby, Alaia Montserrat is two weeks old.