How Venezuela’s Implosion – and Reconstruction – Will Transform South America | Americas Quarterly

How Venezuela’s Implosion – and Reconstruction – Will Transform South America | Americas Quarterly



...the crisis in Venezuela now occupies precious bandwidth when South American diplomats bilaterally engage with their U.S. counterparts, reducing the time available for other key issues.



...Around 10 percent of the population is thought to have emigrated



...With an entire generation of Venezuelans decimated by lack of schooling, malnutrition and untreated diseases once thought of as a thing of the past and a sizeable number of recent refugees unlikely to return, recovery to anything resembling pre-crisis levels is likely to take more than a decade.