The Situation in Venezuela

This is terrible, another quiet war by the CIA, as usual it's the innocent who suffer.

Looks like the state is close to collapse

http://www.theguardian.com/global/2016/may/18/venezuelans-on-food-shortages-economic-crisis-blighting-daily-lives-maduro

incredible situation indeed . this has been going on for some time now , just things are worse.....
What has caused all of this?  They say its the price of oil but is that true . oil is there 90 percent industry?
i dont think so .Perhaps !

Here is a bbc report on the general situation and why , coming from the bbc take it you may!

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-36319877


I found this report a little more hitting the point . from the daily telegraf

Venezuela has the world’s largest oil reserves, which have earned more than one trillion dollars since 1999. Yet such is the crisis in the country that the only contemporary comparison that can be made is with Zimbabwe’s meltdown under Robert Mugabe. Venezuela has the world’s worst inflation, currently about 180 per cent and predicted to rise almost tenfold next year. Yet for all the money being printed, there is almost nothing to buy in shops, with shortages from flour and nappies to medicines and underwear. Desperate people queue from the middle of the night outside supermarkets; tear gas had to be fired to disperse hundreds of looters after a lorry carrying salt and shampoo crashed.

How Venezuelans must yearn for a dose of “failed neo liberal policies”; capitalism and consumerism have lifted millions from poverty around the planet this century while Socialism has done the precise opposite in this country of 30 million people. Seven in ten are of them in poverty, many reduced to smuggling goods over borders to survive. Cities are cursed with violent crime. Corruption is rife. Amid power cuts, the government had to plead with women not to waste energy by using hairdryers while public sector workers were put on a two-day working week.

Serious water supply problems spark protests in Caracas, VenezuelaPlay! 00:23
To put the country’s plight into hideous perspective, ponder this: the only country suffering more extreme economic contraction is conflict-ridden Syria. Both countries have stopped reporting official data. Little wonder, given the surreal situations some Venezuelan firms must endure. The biggest beer producer shut down production due to the lack of barley imports, only for bosses to be threatened with jail for “sabotage”. Another firm went to extreme lengths to find black market toilet paper for staff, then was accused of joining Yankee-backed economic war.

A New York Times investigation has found that hospitals do not even have enough water to wash blood from operating tables
This is a place where the president once personally sacked 20,000 state oil firm workers and replaced them with 100,000 supporters. As part of his proclaimed mission to lift people from poverty, the posturing Chavez promised above all to transform health care. He sent oil to his idol Fidel Castro in return for thousands of Cuban doctors. Yet such is the shattered state of hospitals, a report revealed a hundredfold rise in deaths of infants below one month old since 2012. Maternal mortality has returned to rates last seen 40 years ago.

A New York Times investigation has found that hospitals do not even have enough water to wash blood from operating tables. Now the president, blaming foreign agitators and hit by falling oil prices, has imposed a state of emergency while locked in stalemate with an opposition-dominated parliament; there is growing talk of insurgency.

This country, with its flat-topped mountains, wondrous jungle, gaping prairies, gorgeous beaches and welcoming people, is among the most amazing I have visited. Yet it has descended into darkness, a modern tragedy driven by deluded leftists. So when you hear Corbyn and his chums pontificate about “progressive” policies, remember Venezuela.


well that was a right wing american perspective but ,
It is  important to see the perspective of 180 % inflation rate  and the melt down comparable to Zimbabwe, and even to Syria that is in a chaotic war ! The reliance on one industry for everything is always the way for disaster.And on top of that lies and corruption at the top that takes down all .