Oil Workers Exodus Could Complicate Efforts To Reverse Venezuela’s Collapse

Not only ordinary Venezuelan people have been fleeing poverty and hyperinflation in the Latin American country in recent years. Oil workers are also leaving their poor-paying jobs in the country holding the world’s largest oil reserves for a better life and oil jobs in other oil-rich countries, leaving fewer and fewer skilled workers who could help reverse Venezuela’s collapsing crude oil production, even if Nicolas Maduro is ousted and a business and private-investment friendly leadership takes over, Associated Press correspondent…