@mommunism thank you this stupid shit is just sad at this point
i should add for context the fall of oil prices put africa through a recession the damages they are still facing to this very day
take that knowledge with the combined fact of U.S sanctions since Obama's administration
arming of the opposition we support
and the U.K freezing CITGO accounts (a venezuelan gas company) robbing the venezuelan people of a few billion dollars not bolivars dollars... (combine that with the billions they lose every year due to sanctions) and redirecting that money to guaido's campaign, which btw he kept for his people not all venezuelans (yep the great guaido not a puppet)
but braindead right wingers poison the minds of those who's gut reaction to socialism is to vomit in disgust. weaponizing ignorance has always been their forte
before Chavez poverty was high but the wealth inequality was much more frightening than what we have here in the U.S. so personally~ im not sure about saying Venezuela woulda been poor regardless
the people were robbed and deprived of an education, which ofc led to high crime.
change the leadership and the vision and who knows what venezuela we'd have, then again im sure the U.S and its allies would intervene regardless and fuck shit up to hell