Venezuela is one more of the decay of Latin America; the corruption here is that the same people who remain feed off the same people, taking advantage of the dollar situation to cause harm.

Venezuela lost 55.3 million years of schooling when more than 4 million workers left the labor market.

This astronomical figure is a calculation made by economist Omar Zambrano to draw attention to the findings of the study titled "Economic Crisis and the Collapse of Venezuelan Human Capital."

Zambrano, who is the chief economist at the consulting firm Anova Policy Research, undertook an unprecedented exercise: to estimate the impact that Venezuela's prolonged economic crisis had on its workers, the segment of the population that has the knowledge and experience to recover the country's productive capacity.