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All systems have corruption. However, when the government nationalizes food distribution and production, that corruption has a much larger impact.
by tomohawk 9y ago
All systems have corruption. However, when the government nationalizes food distribution and production, that corruption has a much larger impact.
- toomuchtodo 9y agoMismanaging/squandering/embezzling your country’s oil revenues and a steep decline in said oil revenues without a sovereign wealth cushion was what caused this, not nationalizing food distribution or production. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crisis_in_Venezuela_(2012%E2%80%93present) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crisis_in_Venezuela_(2012%E2...
- candiodari 9y agoCertainly the nationalizing seems to be part of it. Attacking the people producing said food for "hoarding" just to appease your socialist backers [1] [2], I must say, also seems less than helpful to my admittedly uninitiated brain. They've been at it for a decade. [1] https://venezuelanalysis.com/news/11478 https://venezuelanalysis.com/news/11478 [2] http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/17/world/americas/17venezuela.html http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/17/world/americas/17venezuela...