José Hernández and María Torres' son, Luciano, blows the candles of his birthday cake surrounded by other Venezuelan kids in La Paz, on August 15, 2021. They live in a house with 10 other Venezuelan families, part of the small but growing community of Venezuelans who have fled their troubled homeland. Nowadays, Bolivia hosts about 18,000 Venezuelan refugees and migrants, a figure that has doubled in the past year.
