I lived in Venezuela in the early seventies. Life was good and any damn food you wanted was in abundance it the stores. There was poverty but not much. There was no hunger. Repeat, THERE WAS NO HUNGER! Even the poor were well fed and some were fat.
In those days Venezuela had the highest standard of living in South America.
The common thread among the left is Venezuela’s problems are a result of falling oil prices. That is a lie. The price of Venezuelan Crude when I left Venezuela was 50 dollars as based on inflation adjusted dollars. Today that same crude is about 55 inflation adjusted dollars. Venezuela sits on the worlds largest oil reserves and its people are starving. This is communists at work.
Oil production in Venezuela has fallen greatly when the government took over (stole) the international oil companies property and leases.
In the 70s I was part of that oil exploration and production. We had the best of the best from around the world be they American, Brit, Aussie, Mexican, Venezuelan etc. They paid us well and we found and produced oil and Venezuela was prosperous.
Communism via Chavez and Maduro has killed Venezuela! When the final revolution occurs I would not be surprised to see Western Venezuela ally itself with Columbia.
When the Venezuelan military temporarily ousted Chavez, what, 15 years ago, it should have been helicopter-ride time.