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:

sounds like something our$#%&!@*would do
All women and children will be their Sex Slaves abd they Will kill off all our men for a Easy take over. The fools falling for their c**p are Black! Little do they know they will Kill them too once tge take over is done. FOOLS
All women all children
They have resources we want I was told 4 yrs ago to watch we going to Venezuela
now they are blaming america to take the blame away from their leaders who caused this with socialisim
This is pure socialism that’s what happens Sanders supporters please pay attention please see post this is what happens with socialism takes over a government less than five years was a strong vigorous country socialism took over and these other results people wake up and pay attention pay attention we definitely need that wall now
Why would we invade?? Who cares about Venezuela??
And some people think this couldn’t happen here in America
Screw Chavez and the same for Venezuela…we don’t need either of them! America has the capacity to be totally independent from the entire world…from apples to zippers and everything in between….We have the technology to be totally independent for all our energy needs….Remember when gasoline prices go up everything else goes up too! Put in a parrallel pipe line from Alaska it will have no more EPA impact than the one that is already in place. Deep Six the EPA! All they want is a piece of the pie! Put up a few more Dams for Hydroelectric power…very very non-polluting process which in the end will conserve water use for generations. Use coal…we have the clean air technology for that too. This will also provide new jobs or actually a lot of the old jobs that we have allowed to leave this country. In stead of paying our farmers NOT TO GROW things let them grow whatever they can and sell it to those country’s that can’t. Sorry for the long rant but enough is enough!
Invade what??? A broken down country with citizens eating out of the garbage??? Socialism has turned that country into a Detroit Michigan due to a leftist insane agenda!!!!