Socialism always starts as a “people’s movement,” with mindless and ignorant people being directed by elitist con men in the background, telling the foolish that by bringing down the “rich,” everyone will share in the abundance that socialism will bring. It is always a lie, and invariably almost all the people end up in poverty, with the exception of the top socialist leaders who live like kings. Fidel Castro is certainly one who has lived that life, and his protege, Hugo Chavez destroyed the Venezuelan economy pursuing the same socialist policies.
When the economy comes crashing down, it is necessary for the leadership to blame an outside source, and when Chavez was alive, he continually named the United States for all of the woes the country was suffering from. In fact, the oil rich country provides 9 percent of the U.S. gross oil imports, which must be a considerable sum of export income to the nation of 30 million people. As such, the U.S. provided a huge portion of the countries income, but Chavez resented that as well.
Venezuela has expropriated foreign and domestic businesses, which means that the people have little invested in the country and are becoming very unhappy with the leadership as it nosedives to complete economic ruin.
For more on the Venezuelan “people’s paradise,” see page 2:

I have never been to Venezuela.
Let’s go free the$#%&!@*out of it!
Ba-Hahahahaha
Except most of Europe and many other nations. Socialism does work, how’s bout that 18,000,000,000,000 deficit of the USA
LOL you really drink the KoolAid
Another one bites the dust
Carlo Krenzelak Ahhh the man with buzzwords
Guess understanding versus regurgitation wasn’t your strong point
Putting ur ppl in gas chambers before u put other ppl from other countries??? Is that what u fn mean? Socialism only works on paper and in hippy drunk/high campfire conversation.. but never in RL….
You ppl will laugh but part of the hunger games is based on socialism… not the part where they fight for the presence entertainment but the part where each zone is a$#%&!@*hole and starving..no one knows what is going on in the other areas cuz they don’t want ppl to Wrk together
Wake up before this is the U.S. don’t drink the kool-aid
We cannot help. We also have incompetent dumbasses for leaders…
Kind of like they have done to us with Russia? Make them think they’re protecting them? Just like YOUR worthless government does?
Why in the hell are you all so worried about this? You think your government is not doing the same$#%&!@*?