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Venezuelans have discovered in the Netherlands (mainly Holland) a country where they can get help for their early years, but where they can find excellent opportunities: qualified jobs with high salaries. Qualified professionals, with training and studies, find great opportunities, but others have to reinvent themselves. But everyone is doing very well in a country with a huge job market, large companies and high needs for labor. Many qualified workers even move to the country without knowing the local language (Dutch). A good level of English is enough to start making their way. In this new chapter of “Venezuelans around the world” we discover how Venezuelans are making their way in one of the countries with the highest standard of living in the European Union, with great business dynamism and a very varied leisure offer. A good group of women have arrived in the country after having met their boyfriends and husbands and have adapted to their new life and have started a family there. Others have arrived looking for job opportunities, while a smaller group arrived with work. We begin our tour with a visit to Amsterdam's red light district with Manuel Rodriguez. He is an asylum seeker, but has seen enormous growth potential in the city. He is now a content creator and event producer. We also interview Gabriela Attianese, who has lived in the Netherlands for 20 years. Adapted, with a family and her own home, she sees great advantages to living in the Netherlands, although she also does not hide the disadvantages: the climate and the food, something that most of the interviewees agree on. We visit the windmills, the cheese and Swedish factories and discover the welcoming Dutch culture in small towns and villages north of Amsterdam. We also visit the neighbourhoods with social housing where young people can access a roof for a maximum of 800 euros, which is a very reasonable price in that country. In The Hague we meet Gerardo Rosales, a musician who has lived in the country for 30 years. He does not lose his sense of humour and Latin enthusiasm. And he takes us on a tour of a neighbourhood (in theory a poor neighbourhood and can be conflictive), but we only find order and tranquillity. I travel to Utrecht where I meet América Pérez, a former oil industry worker who now works as a makeup artist for drag queens on a television channel. I also meet Dennisse and Ismary, two Venezuelans married to Dutch men. Both have worked caring for grandparents and talk about the work culture and how they have adapted to the Dutch personality. We also talk to Romina, who tells us what it is like to be a mother and raise a family in Holland, and we end with Christian, a young man from Coro, who lived in Spain and Poland and has happily ended up in Amsterdam. Migrating there is not an easy task (it is much easier for anyone with a European passport) and the new government aims to make access to asylum difficult. Almost everyone says that the Netherlands is an orderly, serious, structured country, where Latinos must make efforts to fit in. But they are grateful for the enormous learning. This is a new edition of “Venezuelans around the world” that shows a little-known destination, but much appreciated by migrants.