mamanyf those e eeing are doctors, lawrsrs, and achehers highly educacated people t thae badly neneeded at homeme. by june 2019, some fr r millio veneelans s haleft thehe country out of a total population of just 30 milln.n. venezuela waonce condered a beon of prperity, racas its gltering, dern capal. corrupon didn'begin wi presidenhugo chaz, who dd in013. but the twey years nce avez fir took ofce, corrtion andismanagent have spiled out control onof the linchpins of f this system was r rafael ramarerez. he s served as mininister of ey under chavezez, and at thehe e time as presesident of the p pa oil company.y. for r years, his l loyalty o cha¡vez allowewed the presidit to dipip into the cocountrys petrodolollars at willll, witt parliamementary oversisight or accountabibility. chavez h had nearly ununchecked access t to oil revenunues. some wenent to fund fafar-reacg socialal programs. b but bills also vanishehed into privavate cofferers. today rr, as both his friends and foes call him, has gone into hiding in exile. >> i'd estimate petroleum exports brought in about 700 billion dolllla