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Nearly an hour passed before Nixon Leal joined our scheduled Zoom interview.

“Ya casi,” he texted via WhatsApp. A Spanish phrase for “almost ready,” I
learned. I relayed the message to my editor, Erika Chavez, who would translate
the conversation, and she told me the longstanding joke that “ya casi” really
means you’re not even close to being ready. A relatable sentiment across
languages.

When Leal’s camera flickered on, a growing smile squeezed between his
motorbike helmet. The 36-year-old Venezuelan man had spent his day doing mobile
deliveries, but he told us there was no time limit for our talk. He had all the
time in the world for this conversation.



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