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Large shortages of food and medicines, rampant crime, and intense hyperinflation have driven millions of Venezuelans out of their home in search for survival and a better life. The Venezuela refugee wave is already the large recorded in Latin American, and is on its to becoming one of the largest outward migrations in the world. I have used Facebook data on Venezuelan expats to estimate the number of Venezuelans abroad, resulting in a figure that ranges from 3.3 to 5.1 million. The raw data, my assumptions and empirical methods are reported (in Spanish) in this note that I wrote for prodavinci.com