Since 2014 more than 6 million people have fled Venezuela, bringing the population from 30 million to just under 25 million. That’s 20% of the population. Imagine 1 out of every 5 people you’ve ever known deciding to literally pick up and physically walk out of the country.
That sounds like an absolute collapse of civil society.
> That sounds like an absolute collapse of civil society.
Venezuela is a unique situation as it had been marred with tons of issues since the sanctions imposed on Chavez (and perhaps even before), because Ukraine has suffered the same thing when you include both internal and external displacement the numbers are actually a lot higher [0] and closer to 25% of the population, and this is not including the casualties of this barbaric invasion. And yet it still has a functioning State that is trying to move towards EU membership and is still getting loans and fighting in the East, while life sort of just continues in the West.
Venezuela was melting down prior to sanctions, and was mostly gutted early on by Chavez firing all of the oil technicians and engineers for of all things demanding fair wages.
Ukraine is a terrible comparison, they were literally invaded.
That sounds like an absolute collapse of civil society.