Venezuela Goes the Wrong Way

The leitmotiv of this past fifteen years has been wrong policymaking from the Venezuelan government in economic and social matters, thought up for developing a country model resembling that of the Castro brothers’ Cuba. As it has been widely demonstrated before, this has led to a deep economic and social crisis. Unfortunately, the political reasons of both rulers from the pseudo Bolivarian revolution, Hugo Chávez and Nicolás Maduro, have resulted in a cure worse than the disease produced by the Castro-communist regime itself, and that other measures that were “kind of right” (those applied when they had no choice due to the crushing social pressure) were not taken promptly and became useless in the end. More...