Oil Prices: American Country and Government Opponents

oil prices: Our natural disaster is our government, she says, according to Toronto Star. Vince Talotta / TORONTO STAR Order this photo By Nicholas Keung Immigration reporter Mon., April 10, 2017 With the economy tanking with falling oil prices, Venezuelans with money and professional skills slowly began their mass exodus from the oil rich South American country in the late 2000s. NICHOLAS KEUNG / TORONTO STAR Anna Polga fled political persecution in Caracas and is now a permanent resident in Canada. When inflation skyrocketed to 800 per cent last year amid rampant kidnappings and violence against government opponents, many of the not-so-wealthy decided they had to find a way out of the turmoil, some by sending their children to study abroad. The unrest has gotten so bad that the government-stacked Supreme Court stripped the opposition-controlled congress of its legislative powers only for the court and the president to back down from the move after widespread protests around the capital and criticism by foreign governments. Now, when people can't even put food on the table or get medicine and treatment from hospitals, even the poorest are fleeing Venezuela, where President Nicolas Maduro has been blamed for many of the problems. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.