I feel sorry for your plight. This was and is always will be the price that will be paid for socialism. You live in a county with massive natural wealth in the form of oil. This wealth has been squandered on bribing the voters so as to maintain the status quo for the ruling elite. This cripples the investment in infrastructure and diversification into other industry's which would have insured the long term prosperity of your country. What Venezuela desperately needs is foreign investment but who in there right mind would invest there when any enterprise would likely be nationalized and that investment would be lost.

You say most of your friends have left the country my advice would be for you to as well. Venezuela has an average I.Q. of 84 which with all the smart people leaving is only going to get worse. Sorry to say but that does not bode well for the future implementation of a stable democratic government. Sorry if this is not a particularly "PC" statement but I deal in fact not emotion.

I have been keeping abreast of the situation in Venezuela for a couple of years now via alternative media as the mainstream media will not report on it. Being it fly's in the face of the cultural Marxist, socialist narrative being pushed on the rest of the Western democracies. Venezuela is the future for all of as should this become the norm. So I wish you all the best in whatever decision you take in the future and hope that Venezuela's plight might be a warning to the rest of the world.