Just a reminder...
Socialism is only a transitory state to Communism ... it’s only a matter of the amount of time for the failure before the guns come out (police and military) and are turned on the “gunless” masses.
I feel sorry for the people of North Korea, too, but their leadership needs to be nuked out of existence. Venezuela just needs a good, old-fashioned right-wing military coup.
Make America Venezuela Again!
Or China, or Cuba, or North Korea, or ????
...the executive branch has exercised increasingly authoritarian control over other branches of government. At the same time, democratic institutions have deteriorated, threats to freedom of expression have increased, and political polarization has grown.
Do you see a pattern?
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/ve.html
The poor are sucking the life-blood out of the producers of jobs and wealth.