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When players like Corne and Mobley came back into RuneScape with the money and appetites of adulthood The game's black market was booming. There was still a presence of Chinese gold farmers RS Gold, but there were other players who profited from the revival of RuneScape: Venezuelans as well as Marinez.
On March 12 of 2020, Marinez decided to enroll at a police academy in Caracas, the capital of Venezuela and pursue an employment in law enforcement. The next day when the Venezuelan government announced the first two cases of COVID-19.
It also shut down all schools as well as shut down the borders between Venezuela as well as neighboring countries and put six states and Caracas under quarantine. Marinez was forced to travel on his own and lodged at his uncle's house in a town that is over 50 miles of the capital.
Two months later, Marinez came back to Maracaibo, "without any money in my pockets," he said. Marinez tried to find work but couldn't find any in the job market that was destroyed by the pandemic--and a yearslong economic downturn.
Ten years ago, Venezuela, a petrostate under the administration of Hugo Chavez, witnessed a plunge in oil prices buy runescape 2007 gold. As of 2017, the price of a barrel fell up to nearly $50 from a high that was more than $100 in addition, it was the year that U.S. instituted wide-ranging sanctions against the authoritarian Venezuelan government.
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