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"Things Are Never So Bad That They Can't Get Worse": Venezuela's black-is-white, dystopian unreality

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Frida Ghitis : Venezuela 's oil-rich country so devastated economically that it can't even keep the lights on.

She says a quarter of its population ( nearly 8 million people) has fled the country.

"The resource curse" set in when Hugo Chávez was elected president in 1998 , she says.

Ghitis says Venezuela 's crisis is here, at our doorstep, in our cities.

" Things Are Never So Bad That They Can't Get Worse: Inside the Collapse of Venezuela " by William Neuman ( St. Martin's Press), available via Amazon, Barnes & Noble and Bookshop.org - VIA ( Venezuelans and Immigrants Aid ) Story produced by Wonbo Woo .