THE BIG READ: Why are thousands of Venezuelans fleeing their country?

With chronic shortages of basic goods and services, price increases of 60%, and 30,000 murders per year, the natives, especially the middle classes, are fleeing abroad, says Richard Fitzpatrick

BEING Irish, I’m familiar with emigration. I’m an emigrant. My Venezuelan wife is an emigrant. We live in Barcelona, Spain. But the scale of emigration from the middle class of her country, Venezuela, is a shock to me.