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Venezuela limped along for years under communism. Chavez traded oil for goods to keep his people fed (think of the oil as "other people's money").

What changed? The oil didn't run out. It's still profitable to produce, despite the current glut.

There is demand for consumer goods and resources (oil) to trade for them. Why doesn't supply come in to meet the demand?

I suspect this is a pogram perpetrated against the Venezuelan people - they're being purposely starved and driven out by their own gov't. It's a common thing in totalitarian states - Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, they all did it. And while it went on, while the common people were dying, the ruling classes got along just fine.

This latest communist purge will end eventually, and the politburo will have fewer enemies and fewer "useless mouths to feed".

A lesson to the masses: when you have no rights, no power, and no weapons, this will happen to you sooner or later.

-- A lesson to the masses: when you have no rights, no power, and no weapons, this will happen to you sooner or later. --

The vote is not protection. Venezuela has open and free elections, and viable opposition parties.