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[–] Plant_Boy 0 points 7 points (+7|-0) ago 

What's the back story?

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[–] individualin1984 [S] 4 points 7 points (+11|-4) ago 

The short answer is that this is the inevitable outcome of socialism.

Socialists have turned the most resource rich south american country into a post apocalypse parody. O wait, I forgot, this didn't work because they didn't do it right/ the right people were not in charge / the US had it out for them / Patriarchy / CIA / Aliens. Did I miss any?

http://www.cnbc.com/2016/05/04/how-bad-is-it-in-venezuela-soldiers-are-stealing-goats.html http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-04-18/yellow-water-dirty-air-power-outages-venezuela-hits-a-new-low http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/04/08/473530231/to-save-power-venezuela-gives-public-employees-fridays-off https://youtu.be/UOQb7Y5QVO8

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[–] Drenki 0 points 5 points (+5|-0) ago 

Basically, Venuzuela relied on oil money as the source of funding for government programs. Now that oil is super cheap, they are fucked.