Our economy is dependent on the hard currency that the government limited. This is not sanctions fault, it's all Chávez's.

Since the market was freed and USD is able to be used normally our economy started to resurge. Almost like a freer economy is a better economy lmao

No private company has had their accounts closed if proven they share no connection to the government. I'm an accountant.

>"broad sanctions remain, complicating the country’s access to basic medical and food supplies, despite exemptions for humanitarian needs.
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> 'Impediments to food imports, constituting more than 50 per cent of food consumption, have resulted in the steadily growth of malnourishment in the past 6 years,' Douhan’s report reads, noting that hungry Venezuelans’ “coping mechanisms” include reducing their number of meals per day, selling household assets, and child labor, among other things.

Ah Douhan the diplomat from Belarus? Belarus the ally of Russia?

I mean, her report had some pretty obvious bias and how she didn't mention any of the rest of the causes of our collapse. You just know her takes are shit when she says sanctions "don't allow the government to import food and medicines" when that's just not true.

1st off, the government never stopped importing food for their shit food boxes, ever.

2nd, the medicine crisis has existed in this country since early 2010's, blaming it on sanctions is LAUGHABLE.

Also sanctions explicitly say food and medicines are exempt, government doesn't import them though, that's always been the issue since most food was produced by private businesses and not the government itself (since they bankrupted most of the food businesses they took over)

Holy fuck a coup 50 years ago won't have effect on current crisis specially when the entire political system has changed since then.

Jimenez dictatorship funded by USA LMAO, that just shows you know nothing about that period.

Depends on what you mean by "informal economy". We used to have buhoneros which were people who would throw a blanket on the floor in the middle of the street and sell basically anything, if you mean that kind of thing, nope.

If you mean businesses that let's just say don't pay taxes or work legally then yes. A bunch of people started selling cakes and many othe things.

While sanctions definitely caused our situation to worsen at first, it's been positive for us because the cash injection the country got is absolutely massive. Average wage went from like 5 usd a month to almost 100$. Chávez created a shit country to have a business in, external investment fell sharp and many businesses left because of it. More people unemployed and his stupid idea of throwing money at the poor was our downfall.

Thing is, our worst years were between 2014 and 2016. There's no doubt about that and that coincidentally matches the first years of Maduro's term, sanctions on the country started 2017, so no, sanctions didn't cause our collapse as we had already collapsed for a long time. Lifting the embargo would just take the external investment away. Not like the embargo did anything terrible to us, government doesn't invest on Pdvsa anyway or anything worthwhile so not being able to use our money is better.

Gonna post a short version of my comment on the other news article about the topic:

Our last ray of hope, he brought hope back to majority of the people, but it ended up the same, basically nothing.

When he was appointed people thought we finally had the needed leadership to beat Maduro, over time, it became obvious it was the same leadership and Guaido was just the face of it.

Sanctions brought a resurgence to our economy so at least we're doing better than before.

Venezuela has an inequality issue that was way too big for it to handle.

While we've never been Norway, we were a developing nation, we are whatever the English word for "not developing" is lol

Fuck a leader, we need an opposition lol

Nope, don't lift that shit.

As of right now, Venezuela is having a resurgence period caused by sanctions.

As backwards as it might look like, it's true. Sanctions caused Maduro to make the market "freer" because they can't launder money outside the country so they are forced to use it here.

New businesses have popped up EVERYWHERE. Wages have steadily risen to what felt impossible.

If you lift the sanction, we go down to shit again.

He had insane support from Venezuelans too. Even during his first 6 months.

After that and the obvious lack of urgency and planning made people lose hope again.

You know the other guy means the exact opposite, right?

He's not a USA puppet, he says the entire Venezuelan "opposition" is a farce, they are just corrupt bastards who fake being against the government so they get money and Maduro can show he's "not a dictator".

Socialism caused the mess. You just fail to see it because you don't want to.

Lmao I've lived here my entire life dude, you know Jack shit.

Angarita was a populist, Jimenez was a dictatorship and got coup'd too, funny how you say USA weren't involved then but "actual Venezuelans" when the governments after him were really close with them.

Everything you mentioned is fairly recent. USA was never involved against Chávez, or even Maduro until sanctions.

2014 and those were on individuals, not the country.

That's what happened though?

2002 coup was unrelated to USA. By the time Sanctions hit on 2017 we collapsed so bad Chávez even died.

You don't know the whole story so you go and spread propaganda.

Chávez caused this because he implemented the worst socialist policies, price and exchange controls, that along with taking over businesses and destroying them. USA did nothing to us until sanctions at 2017 and we were a dead horse already, in fact, I would say Sanctions caused the resurgence we are seeing today.

Don't preface your post with "oh we don't know the whole picture" if you won't ask for information but post a shit take about the situation, it's disrespectful to absolutely everyone here.

I mean I live in Venezuela and I lived what caused the issue, you just read some shit opinion on a far left sub lmao

No, kid.

This has nothing to do with "USA doesn't let communism cause mass starvation!!!111!! >:(((", USA hasn't ever been involved in Venezuela at all, had they been involved we would've been freed of this mess for a long time already and maybe in another entirely different one.

Corruption and incompetence were definitely at fault along with shit socialist practices.

It's kinda sad how this turned from our last ray of hope to get Maduro out to... well, nothing at all.

Back when he was appointed 99% of the people I know were happy and hopeful for the future, but ended up being exactly the same as most opposition leaders, we lacked a plan and good leadership.

Here's to another few years of Maduro's bullshit, "opposition" shitting the bed and absolutely nothing changing for years.

And shit first world communists claiming this as their victory while we suffer and die.