Venezuela is blessed with massive amounts of fertile land and lots of water.
The place was a massive food exporter...then something happened...
The magic of leftism when elevated to power. Why it must be destroyed at every turn.
The place was a massive food exporter...then something happened...
The government goons sold the water pipes for scrap to get money to refurbish their oil refinery.
Venezuela Is Tearing Apart Oil Pipelines to Sell as Scrap Metal
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Sep 12, 2020 - Venezuela Is Tearing Apart Oil Pipelines to Sell as Scrap Metal ... is the only type that can be easily processed into fuel in the country's aging refineries. ... The move follows failed attempts to raise $ 800 million in funding from ..
Some communist people did some communist thing.
Back in the '80s, I worked for a rent-a-rig company and was sent down to one of their oil camps in Venezuela. On a flight from Caracas to Barcelona (it was called something else back then) I talked with a local.
We were flying over boondocks and the guy said that it used to be farmland until oil was discovered and ruined everything. Said they used to grow everything and now even beef was imported from Argentina.
The place reminded me of America in the 1890s in that there were loads of Americans free-wheeling in oil and there was an energetic air around you.
But, signs were already on the horizon. I talked with an expat who ran a ferry service out to the rigs in Lake Maracaibo who said Venezuela was headed for Third World status if things didn't straighten out. They didn't.