Then, it shut down all schools as well as shut down the borders between Venezuela and neighboring countries, and placed six states and Caracas on quarantine RuneScape Gold for sale. Marinez was stranded in transit and hunkered down at his uncle's home in a city a little fifty miles from his capital.

Two months later, Marinez came back to Maracaibo, "without any money in my pockets," he said. He looked for work but couldn't find any in an economy devastated due to the pandemic. It also led to a prolonged economic downturn.

Ten years before, Venezuela, a petrostate under the presidency of Hugo Chavez, witnessed a bust in oil prices. 2017 was the year that cost of a barrel dropped to almost $50 from a high that was more than $100 as well as in the same year, the U.S. instituted wide-ranging sanctions against Venezuela's authoritarian regime.

"When oil prices began to decline it was impossible to find funds to import goods," said Alejandro Velasco who is Professor of New York University who specializes in Venezuelan political issues, in an interview via phone. "As as a result there was no funds for the country's economy."

Venezuela's coffers were empty after it spent its largest recent oil wealth on social services like subsidized health care, food as well as literacy programmes buy rs07 gold. Chavez also exiled perceived dissenters from the oil business following an attempted coup attempt, which affected production.