Conquistadors no more: Spaniards are flocking to Latin America because they need jobs

[Judi Lynn]

Conquistadors no more: Spaniards are flocking to Latin America because they need jobs
Simeon Tegel
on Jul 20, 2015 @ 11:14 AM



View of the Barranco district in Lima, Peru, Dec. 4, 2014.

(EITAN ABRAMOVICH / AFP/Getty Images)


LIMA, Peru — “When we told friends and family we were moving to Peru, no one was surprised,” says Ana Bustinduy. “There is just no work in Spain.”

“People have already seen so many others leave. We lost our jobs and it was obvious we had to go. We came because of the crisis.”

After two years struggling to establish themselves in Lima, Bustinduy, 36, a human rights lawyer, and her husband, Carlos Lorenzo Amigo, 33, an agronomist, seem to have found their niche.

Last September they sank all their savings into establishing La Libre, a bookshop in the touristy Barranco district of the Peruvian capital.

More:
http://www.globalpost.com/article/6618886/2015/07/20/fleeing-crisis-home-spaniards-flood-latin-america

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1. While many do choose Peru, a larger number of Spaniards by far, however, has emigrated to Argentina.

According to Spain's INE, 92,000 Spanish-born citizens of Spain live in Argentina as of 2013 - more than in any other country in the Americas, and second only worldwide to France (118,000). 56,000 live in Venezuela, 43,000 in the U.S., 29,000 in Brazil, 17,000 in Mexico, 13,000 in Uruguay, and 7,000 or less in each of the other countries in the Americas (4,000 in Peru).

These numbers exclude Spanish citizens born outside Spain, hundreds of thousands of whom have also returned to their respective homelands.