One problem is that the majority of the population is not just poor. They are also intellectually limited in certain ways. They cannot easily assess the truth o

One problem is that the majority of the population is not just poor. They are also intellectually limited in certain ways. They cannot easily assess the truth of what you say to them. In fact, they usually don't even try. They just trust you, or else they don't. Because of historical reasons, these people prefer to trust Chavistic parties on the left and prefer to distrust parties on the right. You see, the demographics behind the right-wing parties most likely have a history of contempt for these poor and often illiterate masses. Therefore, I would perfectly well understand that there is no love lost between both. Another problem is that economics is barely a science. It does have its merits, but it is certainly not a set of statements backed by experiments that we can repeat in order to find counterexamples. Before the collapse of the Soviet Union, we even had two "economic sciences". The one of the West and the one of the Soviets. You cannot pull that off with mathematics or physics. There have never been two variants of those. It is perfectly feasible, however, to do that with economics. That is how incredibly unsolid that thing is. Now, based on that house of cards, go and convince the Venezuelan popular masses that the hated right-wing parties would be right ...