Student Gabriel Ortiz uses his cellphone at the Central University of Venezuela UCV in Caracas, Thursday, July 4, 2024. The man Ortiz was dating recently left crisis-ridden Venezuela, where the uncertainty is causing many young people to question whether it’s worth it to start a relationship. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)
A supporter of opposition presidential candidate Edmundo Gonzalez points to a copy of an electoral card during a meeting with youth at the Central University of Venezuela (UCV) in Caracas, Venezuela, Sunday, July 14, 2024. (AP Photo/Cristian Hernandez)
Venezuelan Kelybel Sivira poses for a photo in Bogota, Colombia, Friday, July 12, 2024. Half of Sivira's graduating class from law school in Venezuela has left the country, worn out, as she put it, by devoting so much of themselves to anti-government protests only to see that “the country simply moved on as if nothing happened.” In turn, the dating pool for her generation shrank. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)
Roisis Lopez puts the price of five dollars on a bag that will hold cleaning products at her street stall in the Petare neighborhood of Caracas, Venezuela, Tuesday, July 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)
FILE - Franklin Caceres talks with Banesky Fuentes as he fills her container with water pumped from a well in the Petare neighborhood of Caracas, Venezuela, March 20, 2023. In the crisis-ridden country, water, electricity and other public services are unreliable, and food prices have skyrocketed. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix, File)
Roisis Lopez puts out toilet paper to sell at her street stall in the Petare neighborhood of Caracas, Venezuela, Tuesday, July 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)
A campaign sign promoting Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro stands in Caracas, Venezuela, Tuesday, July 16, 2024, ahead of the presidential election. The sign reads in Spanish "More changes and transformations." (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)
FILE – Anti-government protesters march along a highway in Caracas, Venezuela, April 19, 2017. Many young people who once joined such demonstrations are now disillusioned and are considering emigrating – and it’s wreaking havoc on the country’s dating scene. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos, File)
Residents walk through the Petare neighborhood of Caracas, Venezuela, Tuesday, July 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)
FILE - A couple hold hands at a roadblock set by anti-government protesters in Caracas, Venezuela, April 24, 2017. Many young people who once joined such demonstrations are now disillusioned and are considering emigrating – and it’s wreaking havoc on the country’s dating scene. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos, File)