�y��vlog

Determined to provide for herself, Marero learned to make natural skincare products and sold her wares at a crafts market with dozens of other Venezuelans who have started their own businesses.

But the efforts of Marero and others like her to make honest livings have increasingly been overshadowed by what immigrant advocates describe as excessive attention by police and local media to the crimes of a few Venezuelans.

Then the coronavirus pandemic came, hitting Peru particularly hard, and Marero found herself out of work as did countless other migrants.

Marero, the immigrant selling skincare products, deeply misses family and friends who remain in Venezuela, but she said her small business is doing well and has given her a respite from working daily nine-hour shifts at the various jobs she had before the pandemic.