[Wally_Kalbacken]

I'll take some of the yellow, but don't get cheap on me!

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

Nothing to see here. Danny Glover and Sean Penn said that evil capitalist pigs are to blame.

[Sarah Barracuda]

this sh*thole is a liberals paradise

[Slyfox]

You’d think that Madura and his kids could spare a few bolivars out of their multimillions to buy some food for their people.

[clearcarbon]

Venezuela is a real-time simulation of the 2018 felony clinton administration economy (obama 2).

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Four years of recession...have plunged millions of Venezuelans into poverty

Yep. That's all that did it...a pesky four year "recession." It couldn't be anything else.

[libstripper]

I’d like to see them slaughter Maduro and his accomplices. VIVA PINOCHET!!

[Publius]

The trucks and wagons of waiting farmers started trickling blindly down the roads, with no maps, no gas, no feed for the horses -- moving south, south toward the vision of flour mills awaiting them somewhere, with no knowledge of the distances ahead, but with the knowledge of death behind them -- moving, to collapse on the roads, in the gullies, in the breaks of rotted bridges. One farmer was found, half a mile south of the wreck of his truck, lying dead in a ditch, face down, still clutching a sack of wheat on his shoulders.

...

Brother, you asked for it!
Francisco Domingo Carlos Andres Sebastian d'Anconia

Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged, Part III (A is A), Chapter V (Their Brothers' Keepers)

[Sasparilla]

...Food riots grip western Venezuela, mob reportedly slaughters cattle in field...

Would Democrats consider Venezuela a
Sh!t hole?

[lightman]

Socialist sh*thole!

[Trumpnado2016]

All of the zoo animals have been eaten.

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

#1. Look at those bins. Proof that communism succeeds. All the bins are equally empty. Long live the starving masses!

[circlecity]

The crash is coming here too I fear. We’ve passed the point of no return and it’s inevitable. Youn can’t exist on an ever growing foundation of imaginary money forever. The only question is when.

[rrrod]

The Mexican elections will be soon. In the lead is a guy worse than Maduro. Build the wall!

[familyop]

Venezuela
Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venezuela
Corruption in Venezuela is high by world standards and was so for much of the 20th century. The discovery of oil had worsened political corruption,[188] and by the late 1970s, Juan Pablo Pérez Alfonso’s description of oil as “the Devil’s excrement” had become a common expression in Venezuela.[189]...This corruption is shown with Venezuela’s significant involvement in drug trafficking, with Colombian cocaine and other drugs transiting Venezuela towards the United States and Europe.

[familyop]

Economy of Venezuela
Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Venezuela
Venezuela is one of the top four suppliers of foreign oil to the United States. About 500 U.S. companies are represented in Venezuela.[18] According to Central Bank of Venezuela, between 1998 and 2008 the government received around 325 billion USD through oil production and exports in general.[17] Also, according to the International Energy Agency, as of August 2015 the production of 2.4 million barrels per day supplied 500,000 barrels to the United States of America.[18]

[familyop]

WTI crude oil is over $64 per barrel. We’ll see. Venezuela has always been corrupt (as noted in a previous comment with a Wikipedia quote), so a recovery would take a while and only benefit a small portion of the population there much.

[familyop]

Add the history of corruption and ongoing corruption to the following.

Economy of Venezuela
Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Venezuela
Revenue from petroleum exports accounts for more than 50% of the country’s GDP and roughly 95% of total exports...During the collapse of oil prices in the 1980s, the economy contracted...commenced a progressive devaluation, and inflation skyrocketed to reach peaks of 84% in 1989 and 99% in 1996, three years prior to Hugo Chávez taking office.

[Crucial]

But Venezuela isn’t a shithole, oh no. Leftists make countries shitholes. It’s what they do.

[publius911]

Food riots grip western Venezuela, mob reportedly slaughters cattle in field.

OK; I'll ask. Dumb Question.

Why aren't all other areas of Venezuela similarly distressed?