Denise Montilla and her husband Nelson Salas (above left), along with her brother Darwin Montilla and his wife, Raymar Mendoza, dance merengue while their children play at Budare, a Venezuelan restaurant in La Paz, on June 20, 2021. They are among a small but growing community of Venezuelans who have fled their troubled homeland. According to R4V, Bolivia hosts about 18,000 Venezuelan refugees and migrants, a figure that has doubled in the past year.
