Venezuela is Getting Empty as Citizens Flee the Country

Venezuela, once a country welcoming immigrants from post-war Europe, Central and South America (even a few people coming from the north side of the continent), today has become a nation of emigrants. This migratory process, which started to be felt after the so-called Black Friday for the bolivar devaluation in the early ’80s, has been growing steadily since 2003 after more than 20,000 workers from the nation’s oil industry, all of them highly qualified, were laid off massively by the late president Hugo Chávez (in the best style of Donald Trump’s The Apprentice and annoyingly blowing a whistle like a soccer referee) during a national TV and radio broadcast. More...