Can someone sum up what's going on in Venezuela?
Even our current leftist leaders can't make up their minds.
I know opinion is polarized so, dispassionate description of the situation is appreciated.
Thank you.
>>72107162
>inb4 political illiterates flood in comparing Maduro and Chavez to Bernie
>>72107162
>commies ran economy into the ground
>lack electricity despite having some of the largest oil reserves on the world
>supermarket shelves are empty
>certain basic products just unavailable
>strict government regulation makes importations nearly impossible
>people smuggle milk, yes, fucking milk, from colombia
>>72107162
Some say it's too socialist, others say it's not socialist enough.
>>72107297
reddit pls
>>72107162
Socialism AND oil price going down
Their socialist petrol-state is proving short sighted. They never diversified the economy, and now that oil has crashed they don't have money fo dem programz. Crime was already rampant, and now even more people are turning towards it.
>>72107162
Uruguay, you need to become one of our states.
Please call your legislator to express your support for this.
Remember when leftist celebrities parroted about Venezuela's glorious socialism about 10 years ago? Absolutely rekt.
>>72107162
>Socialistic communists pretend they know what they're doing.
>Ruin everything
>Whole economy depends on selling oil to the US
>US starts fracking itself to pieces, no longer needs oil
>Communist dream can't work without US dollars
>The truth is revealed, communism doesn't work.
Get in queue for toilet paper
>>72108148
B b by but REEL COMUNIZM HAS NEVER BEEN ATTEMPTED
>>72107162
US is buttmad because it's a Latin American state that won't gobble americuck cock. US ranked their economy via oil price depression (this was more aimed at Russia though).
Their economy was already bad due to mismanagement, so now it's pretty fucked up. They probably lack the expertise and knowledge to fix their fuck up in the short term but the thing to emphasize is that it is THEIR fuck up, and the US should keep its fucking Jew nose out of Venuzuela's internal affairs so they can actually fix things instead of being knocked back into the puppet state tier of decolonization.
Muh revolucion bolivariana ajajajajaja
>>72108312
>Won't gobble americuck cock
>Powers US tanks by selling cheap oil during the WHOLE iraq campaing.
I found the leftist bernie voter.
>>72108312
They confiscate everything, the productive smart people left, the leechers stayed. Same as Detroit.
Commies ruined the country, the people elected the right wing opposition coalition into the congress but commies still control the presidency and the courts (filled with commie appointees) so the opposition is being cockblocked.
I heard there's gonna be a recall attempt against the president in 2017 (half his term has to be over before he can be recalled)
>>72108312
No you Bernout cuck, the American people couldn't care less about some irrelevant third world shithole. Venezuela is imploding from within. This isn't the cold war where the CIA is pulling the strings against your dear leader.
literally at the bottom of the fucking list
govt stranglehold on the economy results in massive corruption & inefficiency that makes it fucking impossible to run a business
they do nothing but sell oil to USA and China and can't produce anything themselves so they have to import even basic shit
commodity supercycle is over and oil has returned to a normal level so now they're fucked
>>72108616
no one left, people aren't even allowed to enter airports.
>>72108947
>Worse for business than fucking Congo, Burma, Syria and Afghanistan
How do you even get that bad?
>>72108576
Found the guy who is completely ignorant of the last 100 years of Latin American history
>>72107412
its too socialist.
>>72107551
they didnt have money for dem programz before the crash either.
>>72107700
dubs
and bump for yuuuuuuuuuuge
>>72108240
>>72107162
>sell oil to the us and china as your only source of income
>produce nothing else on your own and suppress anyone coming up with ideas
>fuck every foreign investor over so nobody want's to do business with you
>fuck with foreign tourists so they don't want to visit the country anymore
>fuck around with every international organisation up to the WHO pulling out doctors and staff that usually even stay in active war zones...
>upper class and intelectuals start to leave the country as it's shit
>do more socialist stuff
>universities go to shit thanks to zero innovation and almost inexistent international exchange as well as every half way competent professor left anyway
>medicine is free and for everyone yet the treatment is based on the 1980 knowledge base with zero innovation (guess why everyone goes to cuba to get treated...)
>Even the half way educated try to get the hell out
>oil drops
>durrr where iz da moneyz at?
>empty shelfs in stores and 8h long queues to buy toilet paper or a loaf of bread as you can't pay your import bill anymore and the few partners you still have won't deliver without payment
>country is full of people that never worked in their life or ever learned a useful trade as it was just not needed thanks to the oil moneyz
Socialism, not even once.
Government nationalized everything that was profitable, surprisingly enough the government was incredibly inept at running these industries and now they have food supply issues despite being a nation rich in resources.
