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RE: I want to invite @adsactly and @dedicatedguy to a Discussion about what they posted about Venezuela.
Very interesting - but if everyone is free, why is everyone starving? Why are girls I know that live there afraid to walk by themselves in the street?
Doesn’t sound very free?
I could say the reason about people starving is due hiperinflation. A minimal salary here is equal to US$ 1.00. It's really affecting us and some people decided to leave this country. By the end of the past decade, the former president Hugo Chavez started prices regulation due high prices promoted by food producers. This was translated in a shortage from stores and market and restricted quantities, , which also led to an escalation of contraband to the border with Colombia of many basic products (powdered milk, diapers, higiene products, corn flour, rice, etc). Those of many products could be seen on black market at higher prices which the people had been forced to pay. The foreign currency has the same situation, since 2003, Venezuela has passed to a control of the currency which was stronger since 2008 and then it worsened in 2016 when natural persons stopped receiving foreign currency from the government. There was a lot of corruption on the part of briefcase companies who put the currencies granted by the government on the black market; specifically in Cúcuta, Colombia. Dollar prices is calculated at price of Colombian peso which then is priced in relation to Venezuelan Bólivar. In Colombia there is a law that allows its citizens to sell their local currency at a different price established in official exchange houses. So that explains a little about our situation.
In other hand, is well known that delinquency in Caracas -the most dangerous on Venezuela-is the hardest part since decades. The several corruption on public and private institutions has contributed to increase levels on delinquency at the point of being unholdable even for the security forces. No matter how much the fight against crime, it will increase because people and government can't do anything...
I'm not denying the situation in this country, i can assume it and expose it to the world freely...
Do you think the government officials didn't participate in this horrible mafia?
Of course, like any normal country except the banana republic of Venezuela (thanks to the chavistas)
Wrong, of course the government can do something about it, they are just unwilling to do so, they are more focused on stealing the oil money and looting every other resource they can find.