It takes a long time to wreck a country this badly - particularly when it has desirable natural resources. Venezuela didn't wake up last year and decided it wa

It takes a long time to wreck a country this badly - particularly when it has desirable natural resources. Venezuela didn't wake up last year and decided it wanted a particularly messed up form of socialism. This started much longer ago.. (I'll hijack my own comment: socialism != social democracy, as practiced by a few northern European countries.)