Yais Lopilato the hunger strike has started 

by | Jul 23, 2021 | Peru | 0 comments

The odyssey of the Italian-Venezuelan Yais, for a year without documents, without work, without money. All he asks is to return to Italy, to the home of his father’s brother, in Irpinia. The hunger strike has started 

Her name is Yais Lopilato and the name already reveals an intertwining of different worlds: Venezuelan by birth and education, Italian by surname, family and origin. An oil engineer, Yais fled her Venezuela a year ago, forced to abandon everything she had by the authoritarian Maduro regime. She picked up what she could take with her and set off. The plan was simple and clear: to cross Colombia quickly, arrive in Peru and leave for Italy. There, in Mirabella Eclano, in the province of Avellino, there would be the family of “uncle Joe”, brother of the late father Michele, to welcome her and allow her to reorganize a life away from what has been her home since she was born. But he hadn’t come to terms with the imponderable, with the Covid pandemic that blocked the world and made Yais’s intentions even more complex.
Last April, exactly one year ago, she was supposed to get on a plane that would take her to Italy, but the restrictions due to the pandemic upset her plans and her uncle, Joe Lopilato, waited in vain at the Rome airport. From that moment the ordeal of Yais begins. Her Venezuelan passport expires and, as she is a dissident, she cannot go to the Venezuelan embassy to renew it, she would risk arrest. Without work, without a home, without relatives or friends to help her, she soon finds herself without money. Luckily he finds accommodation thanks to a family from Piura, a town 800 kilometers north of Lima, the capital of Peru. She is offered a room, food, lodging, a few pennies and in return works as a babysitter. Yais doesn’t give up. wants to reach Italy and for a year has been asking Italy to welcome it. She has addressed several times to the Italian embassy in Peru, in Lima, but always only by telephone because of Covid and the enormous distance from the capital.
It would take her three days by bus to get there. It seemed that everything could be resolved, because she is the daughter of an Italian citizen. He also asked for asylum from Italy, but the answers from the embassy never arrived. At this point Uncle Joe, a volcanic character who tries to move everything possible, enters the story forcefully: he tries to find a foothold in the Foreign Ministry, involves the mayor of Mirabella Eclano, Giancarlo Ruggiero, who offers to buy the plane ticket that can finally bring Yais to Italy, but it is the bureaucracy that gets stuck. Without a passport, neither Venezuelan, nor Italian, everything becomes almost impossible. Yais falls prey to despair. His appeals to his uncle in Italy are becoming more and more pressing and dramatic. She also decides to start a hunger strike. The story of Yais also struck the host of Rai1, Marco Liorni, with his broadcast, “Italia Sì”, who dealt with it last Saturday, intending to raise awareness both the Farnesina and the Italian Embassy of Peru to try to give a shaken to a situation that has now become unbearable for the girl, but also for her family and for the entire community of Mirabella Eclano who mobilized to show Yais support and affection. – nor Italian, it becomes almost impossible. Yais falls prey to despair. His appeals to his uncle in Italy are becoming more and more pressing and dramatic. She also decides to start a hunger strike. The story of Yais also struck the host of Rai1, Marco Liorni, with his broadcast, “Italia Sì”, who dealt with it last Saturday, intending to raise awareness both the Farnesina and the Italian Embassy of Peru to try to give a shaken to a situation that has now become unbearable for the girl, but also for her family and for the entire community of Mirabella Eclano who mobilized to show Yais support and affection. – nor Italian, it becomes almost impossible. Yais falls prey to despair.
His appeals to his uncle in Italy are becoming more and more pressing and dramatic. She also decides to start a hunger strike. The story of Yais also struck the host of Rai1, Marco Liorni, with his broadcast, “Italia Sì”, who dealt with it last Saturday, intending to raise awareness both the Farnesina and the Italian Embassy of Peru to try to give a shaken to a situation that has now become unbearable for the girl, but also for her family and for the entire community of Mirabella Eclano who mobilized to show Yais support and affection. – She also decides to start a hunger strike. The story of Yais also struck the host of Rai1, Marco Liorni, with his broadcast, “Italia Sì”, who dealt with it last Saturday, intending to raise awareness both the Farnesina and the Italian Embassy of Peru to try to give a shaken to a situation that has now become unbearable for the girl, but also for her family and for the entire community of Mirabella Eclano who mobilized to show Yais support and affection. – She also decides to start a hunger strike. The story of Yais also struck the host of Rai1, Marco Liorni, with his broadcast, “Italia Sì”, who dealt with it last Saturday, intending to raise awareness both the Farnesina and the Italian Embassy of Peru to try to give a shaken to a situation that has now become unbearable for the girl, but also for her family and for the entire community of Mirabella Eclano who mobilized to show Yais support and affection. – Italian Embassy of Peru to try to shake up a situation that has now become unbearable for the girl, but also for her family and for the entire community of Mirabella Eclano, who mobilized to show Yais support and affection. – Italian Embassy of Peru to try to shake up a situation that has now become unbearable for the girl, but also for her family and for the entire community of Mirabella Eclano, who mobilized to show Yais support and affection. –