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Romanian Venezuelans are

Venezuelans Venezuelans (Spanish: ''venezolanos'') are the citizens identified with the country of Venezuela. This connection may be through citizenship, descent or cultural. For most Venezuelans, many or all of these connections exist and are the source of ...

of Romanian descent or a

Romania Romania ( ; ro, România ) is a country located at the crossroads of Central Europe, Central, Eastern Europe, Eastern, and Southeast Europe, Southeastern Europe. It borders Bulgaria to the south, Ukraine to the north, Hungary to the west, S ...

-born person who resides in Venezuela. The Romanian community in Venezuela is around 10,000 people. They are mostly immigrants who arrived in the country, like many other European nationalities, following the

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and the policies of the governments of the

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. Romanians became adjusted to Venezuelan society, because Romanian and Spanish belong to

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, as well as Romanians' Latin identity. During the

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, some Venezuelans of Romanian descent migrated to Romania.

Notable people

Joana Benedek Joana Benedek (, ; born Roxana Joana Benedek Godeanu on January 21, 1972) is a Romanian-born Mexican actress. She left her native land in search of work. She first moved to Venezuela before moving to Mexico. In Caracas she continued to study, b ...

- model and telenovela actress. *

Jacques Braunstein Jacques Braunstein (August 30, 1931 – November 27, 2009) was a Venezuelan musician, economist, publicist and disc jockey. A native of Bucharest, Romania, Braunstein studied violin at age six and later, at age thirteen, took up the double ba ...

- musician, economist, publicist and disc jockey. * Paul Georgescu - hydraulic engineer. Emeritus professor of Simon Bolivar University. *

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- journalist and cultural promoter, creator of the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Caracas. *

Lya Imber Lya Imber (1914–1981) was a pediatriacian. Biography Imber was born in Odessa, Ukraine on 17 March 1914 and died from cancer in Caracas, Venezuela on 23 September 1981. She was a prominent pediatrician vice president of UNICEF, and the fir ...

- first woman in Venezuela to earn the degree of Doctor of Medical Sciences. *

Moisés Kaufman Moisés Kaufman (born November 21, 1963) is a Venezuelan theater director, filmmaker, playwright, founder of Tectonic Theater Project, based in New York City, and co-founder of Miami New Drama at the Colony Theatre. He was awarded the 2016 National ...

- playwright, director and founder of

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. * Thea Segall - photographer

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{{Portal bar, Romania, Venezuela European diaspora in Venezuela

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Notable people

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