[–] AmaleksHairyAss 1 point -1 points 0 points (+0|-1) ago
source?
[–] tanukihat 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Publicly available knowledge. Head on down to "1999 - Present".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Venezuelan_oil_industry
After Hugo Chávez officially took office in February 1999, several policy changes involving the country's oil industry were made to explicitly tie it to the state under his Bolivarian Revolution. Since then, PDVSA has not demonstrated any capability to bring new oil fields onstream since nationalizing heavy oil projects in the Orinoco Petroleum Belt formerly operated by international oil companies ExxonMobil, ConocoPhillips, Chevron and Total. Chávez’s policies damaged Venezuela's oil industry due to lack of investment, corruption and cash shortages.[27][28]
[–] ANGRY_Hippopotamus 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
"A handful of Saudis could go in there and have production up and running in a week".
So could the very capable Venezuelans he fired on live TV and the many other who silently left the country over the past decades.
[–] tanukihat ago
Yep.