Time after time socialism has brought nothing but catastrophe, genocide and hunger. Venezuela is just the latest example in a very long line of examples.
I live in Miami and have so many Venezuelan neighbors escaping that country because of socialism.
>My food situation... well, i used to eat 3 times a day, pizza, nutella Grilled meat idk anything that i wanted to eat, now sometimes i eat twice or once a day, and sometimes i have the bad luck of having nothing to eat for the whole day ;( it gives headache...
>i used to work in a office editing videos in sony vegas, making around 2-4 videos per day.
>Everytime i steps the streets, i see starving people with not too bad clothes, makes me think about how people that used to be like me is now looking for food at gargabe... sometimes i am afraid of end up there too....
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I can imagine myself in his shoes so easily! I used to live in Bolivia and lived the same way he used to live. Churrasco, pizza, shopping whenever - now Venezuela is in a really bad place.
You can't really compare Venezuela socialism and Northern European socialism. The only thing they have in common is the word socialism. IMHO it is totally useless as it is used to describe things that are completely different.
and yet they so often end up there. I think its desperation, trying to convince a whole population to do things differently all at once which never goes well. They end up trying to make change by fiat, instead of working with what they have. So authoritarianism.
Venezuela was democracy. Indeed, Chavez was elected democratically. It eroded. The institutions were weakened. It is now an authoritarian regime, willing to stay in power no matter the costs.
