It's staggering how quickly things can change. In 2014, Venezuelans were some of the happiest people in the world, and according to Pew happier than the average American [1]

Now it easily tops the Bloomberg misery index for the second year in a row [2]

[1] http://www.pewglobal.org/2014/10/30/people-in-emerging-marke...

[2] http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-02-04/these-are-...