Idled Smurfit tractors in Ospino, Venezuela. Hundreds of employees, who counted on the Irish company for transport, education, housing and food, continue to show up at work after the facility was shut down. Latin America Venezuelans Despair as Companies Flee Irish packaging giant Smurfit closed its Venezuelan factories amid a spat with the socialist government, joining other multinationals abandoning a sinking economy

Idled Smurfit tractors in Ospino, Venezuela. Hundreds of employees, who counted on the Irish company for transport, education, housing and food, continue to show up at work after the facility was shut down.