Amid mass exodus, Venezuela is losing its teachers

By Patrick Gillespie, CNN Updated 1:29 PM ET, Thu

(CNN)Mariella Azzato sees her staff thinning almost daily in Venezuela.

Over 430 professors, assistants and faculty have left the University of Simon Bolivar, in Caracas, since 2015, according to Azzato, the university's vice rector of administration. The public university is widely considered one of Venezuela's best, yet more than a third of the faculty have left in three years.

The vast majority of professors are leaving in search of better lives in other countries as Venezuela dives deeper into an economic and humanitarian crisis punctuated by a government many, including President Trump, deem a dictatorship.

"A moment is going to arrive when there's isn't anyone," Azzato laments. "There's an exodus of the most talented professors to other countries."

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