Rohag has a good point. Can you get to an american embassy? If you are over the age of 18, which I'm guessing you are since you are going to college on line, you might want to check out getting a passport out of there.

I've never been overseas, but what you are describing sounds scary. Do you have any relatives left here? Someone with whom you could live with until you could get on your feet?

One of my concerns is that you will get into trouble if you are using the internet. I can understand why you would want contact with people here, but you also need to make sure you are safe.

It does not surprise me that people have a poor mindset. When you grow up in a country with no boundries, (them, not you), as far as the law goes, and know that they cannot get help from a legal system that is corrupt, it comes down to survival. Your situation sounds similar to someone who grew up in an upper middle class family suddently finding themselves living in one of the run down ghettos where drugs run rampant and violence is an everyday thing, except worse.

That you still feel you have much of yourself left, the only thing I can think of is getting the heck out of there.

Sam2