How does a nation so rich in oil & gas reserves fuck up so badly?

>>73028926
You can read https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Venezuela but I will sum it up for you: No long-term planning and no popular interest in voting/referendums.

All oil and gas reserves are situated in shitty countries. Easy money makes people act like new rich plebs and they tend to make uneducated desitions

Resource curse. So much money flowing so quickly so easily into any country will inevitably bring endless corruption.

i want a venezuelan gf so bad, brehs

>>73029248
Fuck off to /b/ please, Leaf. This is a serious topic.

>>73029248
It should be easy to find one, or someone who wants to get married for Canadian citizenship.

>>73028926

google Boves

". Most striking to his contemporaries, however, was that he allowed his llanero soldiers to engage in a class and race war against the landed and urban classes of Venezuela, fulfilling the latters' fear, since 1810, that the revolution could devolve into another Haitian Revolution. (Compare Hidalgo's assault on Guanajuato.) Boves's army became feared for its liberal use of pillage and summary executions, which became notorious even in this period when such actions were common on both sides of the conflict. (See Simón Bolívar's "Decree of War to the Death".)


there was pretty much a genocide against whites there and they never recovered. they killed all of their elite in a country that is not racially homogenous.

>>73029393
>Having lost his father at age 4, he was raised by his single mother

Every time

>>73029393
>there was pretty much a genocide against whites there and they never recovered. they killed all of their elite in a country that is not racially homogenous.
What are you talking about? How do you relate a white people genocide to venezuela's actual crisis? Where is the political factor? Where is the admin factor? etc

>How does a nation so rich in oil & gas reserves fuck up so badly?
Communism.

>>73028926
It looks like Lithuania.

>>73029759
Best answer.

Say it with me, /int/

SOCIALISM

>>73028926
Somehow I bet the Americans did this.

>>73029759
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>>73032106
Idiots.

>>73032144
t. vernie supporter

>>73032167
Actually I'm strictly anti-Marxist.