Elizabeth Troval
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26 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Feb 2026
last heard 19 Feb
Elizabeth Troval’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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At La Pradera Latin Market, a clean, well-lit store inside a dingy strip mall.
You can buy Venezuelan coffee, chocolate, cookies and cheese.
Leydelin Castellanos pulls a soft white cheese out of the fridge along with a container of a special cream.
While she shows me around, one of her regulars stops by.
She welcomes her in.
Castellanos opened her shop in 2019 to cater to a Venezuelan population that has grown to roughly 75,000 people in the Houston metro area.
So many of them live in the small suburban city of Katy.
It's sometimes called Katy-suela.
Castellanos and her husband first came to Texas because of his job in the oil fields.
He chose Katy for the good schools and affordable homes.
She's watched the community grow, new immigrants from Venezuela moving here, starting businesses and buying houses.
But this recent wave of immigration is not how Houston's relationship with Venezuela started.
Francisco Munaldi is a professor at Rice University and is from Venezuela.
He says before Houston received tens of thousands of Venezuelan immigrants, it was Americans who sought opportunities in Venezuela.
In this training video from the 1950s, an American father is assigned to work in Venezuela's oil fields and is writing back home to his wife.
In Houston, Minaldi often meets Americans who worked in Venezuela many decades ago.
And now that the U.S.
government wants to develop Venezuela's oil sector, we may start to see this dynamic again, with Venezuelans in the U.S.
who work for American energy companies going to Venezuela from places like Haiti.
He says there's been lots of interest so far, and it makes a lot of sense for both the Venezuelans in Houston and the energy companies that employ them.
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