Absolutely, I have posted on the subject and people lose their minds when you tell them Socialism in Venezuela was never given a chance to fail, because the full crushing weight of the U.S. Government did everything in it's power for almost 20 years to destabilize Venezuelan society at every turn. No amount of evidence will wake up the nay sayers who sound like lost sheep parroting U.S. Government  fake news narrative's on Venezuela as a perfect example of failed Socialism, Venezuela has many similarities with 1953 Iran.

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it is the Texans oil moguls behind this? same story different times ...
Gangsta America is gonna finish bad one of these days ...the 21st century is over with its covert ops...they had to emp attack the electricity grid but soon they will replace the damaged components... 

First lift the sanctions and then try and claim the failure of the system! It would be interesting to see what actually happens around the world if other countries stopped interfering in each other's business.

Cuba was a pretty good example of rising to US sanctions and coming out on top. It's by no means perfect, but they managed to become self sufficient. They have a bit of a choke hold on Venezuela with their oil being their biggest asset. I wonder, if they could switch priorities and make other things better assets, could they prosper despite the sanctions as Cuba did? We all need to wean ourselves off oil eventually, after all.

It's mostly because of the oil price tanking in 2014. That's when their problems started. But the fact that their government is authoritarian and incompetent has very much to with it, too. My understanding of what is happening is based on what my Venezuelan friends here have told me.

It is always the same way to attack countries for the only purpose to have access to the oil.

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I'll explain with an example I hope my English is well interpreted.

Imagine that you live in a large urbanization and in this urbanization there are around many houses about 100 or so and all of them must follow rules and laws to live in community.
However, internally, each house must follow laws and regulations so that life inside those houses is carried out in good terms.
What would you do if you know that the manager of that house, mistreats and kills those who live inside that house, but when he goes out of that house, it gives the appearance that everything inside is very beautiful and he gives reports to his neighbors that everything works well and those neighbors are created everything that says the report delivered by the person in charge of that house only because it gives money so that they believe everything that happens inside.
The nearest neighbors every day hear the cries for help from many who are inside, what goes on in there and none do anything just turn their faces and look the other way, because the housekeeper keeps giving money good money that is generated not because he is a good administrator of the resources he has, the good money is generated because those who live inside that home make products that are sold in markets that pay good money now the ones we live in do not have the He blames that the product in international markets goes down in price. Those of us who live inside do not have the fault that the manager has stolen all the money that went into that home and that all of us inside are suffering because there was never any type of investment for that house to be well.
For those who do not know, the only ones who are truly doing something for which we live inside that house are the Americans who realized that this guy under a banner of socialism is doing something.

I would like to see how those who have a socialist flag take away their companies, take away their land and do nothing to make these companies work and do nothing to produce those lands. They know why because they realized that by importing everything that is needed in Venezuela they can steal much more money.

There are many people who think from the outside but none are here inside and so they could realize in their own flesh what is happening.

Now that the United States is imposing sanctions on them and I clarify that not sanctioned Venezuela. He is doing it against the delinquents government officials and certainly individual menara. What happens is that those officials who have a lot of money from what they steal can manipulate the news and information by making the world believe that the sanctions are for Venezuela, and it is not so the sanctions are individually for each one of those criminals of the government.

The US is the world record holder in toppling democratically elected leaderships, often to install a dictator. 

If they really topple a dictator it is only coincidentally. 

But either way, it is not about democracy or some other virtue (or even vice), it is about control. 

There were quite some stupid things done in Venezuela that resulted in the big financial troubles after the oil price drop, but half of the problems are made by foreign powers - and I don't mean China here. 

And yeah, the "backyard" rhetoric. The whole world is a backyard to the US, as you can see on the proud- swelled soldiers that tell you that the US can kill anyone in a matter of hours, even in Antartica. 

The US is an Empire, and while some Empires fell to even bigger rivals, most fell by internal corruption and (mostly economic) injustice.  
If you look at the state of the US, especially under Trump, there is a very sick elephant indeed.

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