Nieves Ribullen, a Venezuelan oil worker sick of struggling to get by as his country falls apart, is betting it all on a far-away job in Iraq’s Kurdish region to give his family a better life. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)
Nieves Ribullen, a Venezuelan oil worker sick of struggling to get by as his country falls apart, is betting it all on far-away Iraq’s Kurdish region to give his family a better life.
Over the years he’s watched dozens of co-workers abandon poverty wages and dangerous working conditions at the rundown complex of refineries in Punto Fijo on Venezuela’s Caribbean coast for jobs in far-flung places such as Kuwait, Angola and Chile.
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