From Caracas to Queensland: a Venezuelan asylum seeker reflects on freedom after Maduro’s capture.
Sarah Machmud says Venezuelans had waited years for the U.S. to take action in her country.Courtesy of Sarah Machmud
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Sarah Machmud is a typical Queenslander—she has a passion for food, health and fitness and loves the summer sun—but deep down she longs to return to her home.
The Venezuelan-Australian who arrived as an asylum seeker in 2016 remembers all too well the smothering sense of oppression she left behind in her home country, more than 15,000 kilometres away.
Crystal-Rose Jones is a reporter based in Australia. She previously worked at News Corp for 16 years as a senior journalist and editor.
