Of course the rich and middle class would flee, Chavez has done a lot for the poor. This is the fault of having an economy based upon one resource, it was idiotic economic planning that thought, social welfare programs would last from the boom of one oil industry. It is not the fault of socialism, more the fault of idiotic economic planning.
In that article, the majority of refugees are fleeing to Curacao, a tiny near-desert island surrounded by reefs and rough seas.
I can't begrudge anyone who runs away from a terrible living condition, from a failed state, but their near uniform choice of Curacao is telling. These people would rather pay pirates $1000 USD for a chance to be tossed overboard from a raft to swim to rich Curacao than to walk to poor Guyana for free*. In that sense, even desperate people exercise economic choice.
*The article does mention that Venezuelans were flooding the border to slightly-worse-off-on-paper Colombia before their Army closed it.
I wasn't talking about right now was I though? I was talking about immoral and greedy rich people, leaving the country, has a lot to do with Venezuela's problems today, the country was deeply mis-managed under Chavez and Maduro, under the guise of socialism. Your point being? Unless you seriously believed, I was talking about the second wave of migrants, who have a lot of problems, are desecrate in their attempts for a better regards.
I really don't care about the rich migrants, who left to the US, who are a lot of blame for such a problem.
