RE: Venezuela
May 17, 2016 at 4:34 pm
(This post was last modified: May 17, 2016 at 4:37 pm by CapnAwesome.)
Chavez really did a number on that country. He promised people free everything, thought that somehow a corrupt state could provide everything just by virtue of being a state. Politically isolated himself from his largest trading partner. Reality is a bitch.
If you look at what happened there compared to the economic turnaround of neighborhood Columbia, which had a moderate right government turning the Chavez years, the comparision is obvious. These things don't happen in a vaccum. Chavez tried to model his government on failed states and we shouldn't be shocked when it fails.
If you look at what happened there compared to the economic turnaround of neighborhood Columbia, which had a moderate right government turning the Chavez years, the comparision is obvious. These things don't happen in a vaccum. Chavez tried to model his government on failed states and we shouldn't be shocked when it fails.
![[Image: dcep7c.jpg]](https://images.weserv.nl/?url=i46.tinypic.com%2Fdcep7c.jpg)
