He’s probably venezuelan and by stuck he means he has no feasible way of legally migrating to another country. Therefore, he’s stuck and seeking out help. I know because I myself am a venezuelan who migrated, but have most of my family also stuck in Venezuela.
Yes, incredibly difficult to get a Venezuelan passport now, these restrictions prevents nationals from leaving en masse. Thousands of Venezuelans have illegally walked out of their country, and making their way to my home country Ecuador on foot.
That’s correct, everybody is hungry so corruption is everywhere. To get a passport you need to give the officer an iPhone 7 or a few thousand dollars. I read this today, it’s pretty bad.
with Maduro being a dictator and the economy being so incredibly rough (like, money worth nothing & people dying from starvation rough), even people who were born there likely feel stuck right now
It's disappointing (to me, at least) that you're being downvoted. Maduro is bad. Worse than Chavez bad. And, yes, mass starvation in Venezuela is very real.