Lesson learned....
Communism doesn’t work.
The left never learns.
Communism is not working in Venezuela because they do not have a leader who is as smart as 0bama is. 0bama is the one we have been waiting for who will make socialism work. /s
Yup. What is infuriating about the whole thing is that Venezuela does NOT have to depend on oil. It is one of the most resource-rich countries in the world, with a relatively highly-educated middle class (what there is left of it), bountiful hydroelectric resources (not maintained and so breaking down) - farmland, forest, everything you could want. And a political system that has managed to squander all of it, and is now doing what the Left always does - blame somebody else. Maddening.
The REAL lesson here is that when you let EVERYBODY vote, the communists take over.
Universal Suffrage is a cancer.
The funny part about a lot of the comments on this thread is that people don’t seem to see the very large elephant sitting there.
“Communism never works” because Venezuela is selling out to China.
Yet China has for 60+ years been a fully Communist country. At least in theory and name.
And China has gone from waaay below Venezuela to gaining on the USA.
Either China isn’t “really” Communist, or Communism CAN work.