Comments by "" (@shauncameron8390) on "How Venezuela's Economy Became a Disaster" video.

  1. Pretty much.
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  2. Before that, electing as leader an authoritarian ex-military general.
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  3. US interference is not responsible for the price controls, expropriations and just throwing money at people instead of allowing people to establish businesses, etc. Chavez and Maduro did.
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  4. By Chavez and Maduro.
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  5. Nope. Socialists doing socialist things.
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  6. That didn't stop it from prospering during Chavez's final years on Earth.
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  7. <The country was never allowed to. > Yes it was. Venezuela had plenty of agency.
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  8. Pretty much.
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  9. <Economic Hitmen> Namely Chavez and Maduro.
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  10. Average TeleSur propaganda comment.
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  11. But Venezuela is just like every other Latin America country. Corruption, instability and stagnation rule the roost.
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  12. It worked for Chile.
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  13. There is no such thing as equality as even the most egalitarian societies have rich and poor.
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  14. Because the socialists in charge are amateurs.
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  15. <Did the same with Zimbabwe after Mugabe kicked out the colonialists> And replaced them with political friends who allowed the farmland to go to waste.
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  16. But internal factors laid the foundation. All countries collapse from within.
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  17. That isn't much of an accomplishment.
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  18. But Chavez did make everyone a 6-figure earner, though.
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  19. Socialism is mismanagement personified.
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  20. Venezuela is a dumpster fire because of Venezuela. Interesting how Venezuela managed to prosper in spite of the supposed sanctions in the late 2000's early 2010's.
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  21.  @tobos8909  Somalia was never capitalist and certainly not at the time Mohamed Siad Barre, a USSR-backed socialist, was in charge.
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  22. How come Iran isn't struggling like Venezuela while under more or less the same sanctions?
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  23. USSR East Germany Romania Red China Cambodia Vietnam Burma North Korea Cuba Nicaragua Guyana Ethiopia Somalia Madagascar Zimbabwe Tanzania
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  24.  @RextheRebel  And mismanaging it into ruin. That's socialism being incompetent alongside corrupt.
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  25.  @RextheRebel  Not in Tanzania, Yugoslavia, Madagascar or Mongolia's case.
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  26. LOL. Don't deny Venezuela its agency.
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  27. No. Hugo Chavez and Nicolas Maduro. That's how.
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  28. Socialist ideology = mismanagement personified.
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  29. How come Iran is doing better in spite of them?
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  30. The story of Nicaragua under Ortega.
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  31. LOL. If so, then how did Venezuela manage to prosper during that time?
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  32. Sanctions don't cause things like this, not even at its worst. This one is on Maduro.
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