Long time ago (15 years ago?) I was dating a (very) rich Venezuelan girl for a brief period of time. The situation was already bad enough that most rich people had flown away, sold their businesses to global corps and bought properties in Manhattan, Monaco, Madrid, etc.... For their homes in Caracas they had almost an army of privately hired (payment shared between several families/communities) security personnel with auto weapons. They knew the government of Chaves was unable and not going to protect them against robbers, hijackers, etc... more so as they were opposed to him. it was very frequent to hear the fire of weapons in the night.

Most of them are well established now out of their originating country, probably to never come back... unless things change.

And I am talking 15 years ago! Can't even dare to imagine what kind of shithole of a country it has become now. You really don't want to go there, much less if you have any money. Really. Completely forget about it.