Enough with the obnoxious clickbait. Here is the freaking quote:
This country had become, you know, you could say, like a rich guy that had forgotten how to cook and had been ordering takeout for years. And suddenly, when the money disappeared, there was no money to buy some of the basics anymore. That model doesn’t change whether the opposition or the Chavistas are in power, whether the left is power or not. That remains the same.
Um, I could cavil at this one. The leftists have made it worse. In fact maybe we could liken the leftists to the takeout palace, which has suddenly gone broke. We have the perfect storm of a people with learned helplessness and their only accustomed help gone away.
Leftism should be very careful with this excuse, in other words. In pointing a finger at the people, it manages to leave three others pointing back at it.
And if it were a rightist situation run into a famine? 5 would get you 10, that the country could deal with that a lot better, with some scantiness and privations but not the huge cluster assault that it has now, as markets lurched into adjustment.
There’s an old saying in Venezuela: “There are no good governments or bad governments . Only governments when the price of oil is high and governments when the price of oil is low.”