Socialism always starts as a “people’s movement,” with mindless and ignorant people being directed by elitist con men in the background, telling the foolish that by bringing down the “rich,” everyone will share in the abundance that socialism will bring. It is always a lie, and invariably almost all the people end up in poverty, with the exception of the top socialist leaders who live like kings. Fidel Castro is certainly one who has lived that life, and his protege, Hugo Chavez destroyed the Venezuelan economy pursuing the same socialist policies.
When the economy comes crashing down, it is necessary for the leadership to blame an outside source, and when Chavez was alive, he continually named the United States for all of the woes the country was suffering from. In fact, the oil rich country provides 9 percent of the U.S. gross oil imports, which must be a considerable sum of export income to the nation of 30 million people. As such, the U.S. provided a huge portion of the countries income, but Chavez resented that as well.
Venezuela has expropriated foreign and domestic businesses, which means that the people have little invested in the country and are becoming very unhappy with the leadership as it nosedives to complete economic ruin.
For more on the Venezuelan “people’s paradise,” see page 2:
Their economy is utterly based oil…when the prices dropped dramatically and for so long is what caused the failure.
F**k outta here with these lies!
Uh this situation is as created BY America over the last couple decades… Every time a Latin American country gets a leader or government that is actually about its people( and therefore not just about profits made by deals with America), we remove them via a coup or assassinations…. U cannot compare this situation with what would happen in America because this is a synthetic occurrence. An attempt at socialism within the U.S. might have an opportunity to be legit
Also I love the people that claim “never worked in history” as being a justified reason to stop trying… How many things has man accomplished that everyone said wouldn’t work because it hasn’t???? Flying, space shuttles, curing cancer, etc
Anyone that continues to support a systems that caters to the very very rich and is not one themselves…. Is a$#%&!@*idiot puppet
Send big bird over to save them
Socialism at its finest!
They should hope we would invade and bring FOOD.
This is how socialism- communism ALWAYS end people ….
Well Venezuela, time to learn how to fish