How does a country fail despite having literally infinite amounts of oil? How are latinx so incompetent?
>>216014291Corruption, mostly. Even when things were going well, the average citizen lived a shit life and had nothing. The central bank printed money to cover deficits which put their inflation over a million %, while governments ran by guys like Chávez and Maduro just acted like mafia and killed all their opposition so they and their friends could hoard all the wealth while the rest of the country lives in poverty.
>>216014291catholicism is a hell of a drug
>>216014339you could've just written communism
>>216014291Pinochetcuck decided to exile our local commie brainwashers instead of putting them to work until death in a gulag.Many of them looked for an easy, plump prey to parasite.
>>216014291Lazy, low IQ, and the spanish language. I have come to the conclusion that if your native language originates with Latin, your brain is naturally retarded. There is obviously a high correlation between mental strength and capability with language. Look at the Germanic speakers - natural conquerors, inventors, and superior.
>>216014291By America sanctioning them into the ground
>>216014640But they were a shithole before that.
Socialism/communism/social democracyBrown and black genesMixed race populationIrreligiousnessLiberalized caribbean culture
>>216014731they actually weren't, Venezuela had a relatively decent economy in the early 20th century.
>>216014398Me temo que los moderadores me van a banear.La última vez que hablé mal del comunismo recibí un mensaje diciendo que si hablaba de política fuera de /pol/ me banearían.
>>216014291One reason, USA
>>216014291Corrupt socialist dictatorship, that's all.We need to save them from communism and make them the 51st state.
>>216014792>20th centuryYou mean the 1930's?
>>216014918yes, including the 1930's
>>216014950So what happened?
>>216014980I'm not sure, but starting from the 2000's America has been heavily sanctioning Venezuela.
>>216014291negro blood
>>216014291Chavez nationalized the oil and removed foreign oil companies. Then he fired all the experienced workers from the national oil company because he said they were planning a coup. Nobody was left to do the work and production never recovered.
>>216015006Only against individuals like drug-traffickers and politicians the first us sactions targeting companies and government entities were only introduced in 2017.
>>216015006>I don't know, but it's probably America's fault somehow because... well... the internet said so!
>>216014291Wonder who's behind this... OH RIGHT, I remember now
Here's a documentary.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPytfppNhc4
>>216015092The us elected maduro?
You'd fail as well without fennoswedes
>>216015620nowadays fennoswedes are just a bunch of rural farmers, they have lower average wealth than ethnic finns
