( CNN) The decision to come to the United States wasn’t an easy one. Carolina, a 33 -year-old mother of three, said it was perhaps one of the toughest decisions of their own lives — one taken after many sleepless nights in her Barquisimeto, Venezuela, apartment.
Holding back tears, she remembers a night spent on the storey. She huddled with her three children, praying, as Venezuelan government armies fiercely clashed with objectors outside her apartment walls. In the streets anti-government objectors demanded Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro step down. Their protests were met with tear gas, sea cannons, and rubber bullets. During that night of April 11, three Venezuelans would die in the Barquisimeto area.
“The hardest instants happened on the last days, ” Carolina said. Carolina is not her real epithet. She has asked to remain anonymous for panic of reprisal against her family in Venezuela.
