Mario Amate, who used to work as an Uber driver and recently found himself unemployed, knocks on a door to deliver homemeade tequenos, a popular Venezuelan snack, to a customer AFP/CHANDAN KHANNA

MIAMI: Hop into an Uber in Miami before the pandemic and it was easy to hear a driver speaking Spanish with an accent from Venezuela - many of its people ended up here after fleeing an economic meltdown back home.