I hate to say they “deserve it,” but its tough to feel any other way. No one imposed Chavez and Maduro on the country. No alien invaders came and established a foreign government. This is government for Venezuelans, by Venezuelans. The people chose these rulers in elections, and generally stood by while they slowly accumulated power.
The upside is that Venezuelans are doing the world a favor by showing us a typical collectivist disaster in progress. The world seems to constantly be seduced by Marxism, so sadly, people need a constant negative reminder of how destructive it is.
What about fraud?
What’s the fastest animal in the world?
A live Venezuelan anteater that is still alive.
I understand. I'm a conservative in a blue/lib state, so when red-staters complain about crazy leftist crap that goes national, I want to say "Hey! Don't look at me!"
I have to believe (I hope?) there are Venezuelans who are "normal" and DON'T deserve it.
Well...Chavez did have financing and propaganda help from Iran and Cuba.
till required a bunch of stupid gimmedats to get him in but it wasn’t entirely domestic.
I wonder if Soros pitched in too since years ago I remember arguing with liberals about Chavez when he first got in, predicting that food shortages and famine would inevitably follow.
A lot of Venezuelans are in the same position we were when Obama won. We didn’t vote for him, but we got him, good and hard.