Is it the fault of the USA that Venezuela’s currency is so devalued that a great part of the population has to emigrate outside the country?
Is it the fault of the USA that Venezuela’s currency is so devalued that a great part of the population has to emigrate outside the country?
… no. Venezuela should has diversified its economy
It costs money for an entire country to even attempt to diversify its economy, and a shitload of time and natural resources.
They had a national welfare system that to my understanding was very extensive, but just handed out money. What if that money was instead moved to the creation of other sectors and welfare was done through that
It was. Not much you can do when you are psychologically abused and sabotaged by a larger next door neighbor.
Where do you think the welfare money goes huh?
In Venezuela? It went directly to unemployment
First of all, your sentence is a contradiction on its own. A national welfare system that just handed money? Lula’s policies are more akin to that. Second, Veneuzela did move its resources to other sectors of its economy (i.e housing) https://venezuelanalysis.com/news/12946/
isn’t this literally victim-blaming?
what if Venezuela didn’t want to diversify its economy? should it be punished by illegal sanctions for that? where is the free market that neolibs talk so much about?
That isn’t what happened. The sanctions where because the president didn’t have legitimate elections… and killed political opposition. I don’t agree with the sanctions as political punishment. But the emergence of Russia played a larger role than sanctions. Russia makes cheaper oil
The only reason the elections were declared illegitimate was because Maduro rightfully won. And the opposition wasn’t killed, they were imprisoned for being traitors. They should be greatful most of them were allowed to live.
you got any sources to back up your claims big boy?