That’s true only with heavy manipulation...and believing the Chavez regime’s insanely false figures.
When Chavez took over, VZ was one of the largest exporters of food in LatAm. Now it IMPORTS all of its basic foods. That was the result of the expropriation of the large agribusiness lands, their redistribution in little plots to peasants (urban ones, at that), and massive corruption.
that's more proof socialism( government running things ) doesn't work