Oh no... not at all... "the evil west" is just as much BS as the "axis of evil" in the east... lol

But I do think there are more economic factor and potentially foul play involved when the country with the biggest oil reserves in the world goes apeshit like that!

Now the plummeting oil prices in recent years and huge government misspending and mismanagement have certainly done the majority of the later damages. But the history of Venezuela is not as straight forward as it is pictured in the brief articles I find online.

Some digging shows that the former president, Chavez, who took presidency and lead the country for most of the past two decades did do quite well. Social and economic equality of the population as well as education standards and such increased dramatically.

Meanwhile international tensions and silent conflict with the US certainly did play a part, too. Oil rich countries have a hard time if they don't want to play ball with the big guys.

I cannot say how much which factors contributed to the demise of the country. I am just not sure if it's so simple as to just blame socialism for the whole disaster.

I don't support any kind of governmental force, but I also don't give a shit what label is attached to it, in the end they'll always tell us it's for our own good, socialism may just be the ultimate PR scam with it's "cooperative" message. So don't get me wrong.