“There are a lot of good people who opposed both Chavez and Carudo who are caught in this and they deserve our sympathy.”
I am friends with one here in AZ who managed to get out.
The best and brightest have found their way out of Venezuela over the past few decades (my wife worked with one 20+ years ago, who got out when the family saw the writing on the wall back then); the Creoles (Spanish-descended Latinos), as in Cuba, have largely abandoned the former colony to the people who lived there before as well as the descendants of the slaves brought over a century and a half ago. Spain is usually very accommodating in taking these people in when they can prove Spanish descent; better than importing Arabs or Incas...