Gestapo SS tactics
Venezuela’s fall from a free-market powerhouse to a poverty-ridden, socialist police state.
How Venezuela became a socialist country…
Chavez succeeded in re-writing the Constitution, which came with new rights to things like free government-provided health care, college, and “social justice”.
Chavez “stacked the courts”
“Constant attacks on private property, the implementation of very harmful economic policies, criminalization of dissent, censorship,
Thousands of private businesses were nationalized – including media outlets, oil and power companies, mines, farms, banks, factories, and grocery stores.
Chavez’s economic policies, caused massive food shortages and hyperinflation. And then controlled the amount of food citizens would get…even that amount wasn't available.
Citizens only spent their time trying to find food and medicines to survive.
The Venezuelan government justified the gun bans and confiscations by saying they were needed to combat the country’s violent crime and murder epidemic.
The poverty rate is 60%.
Children eat from garbage.
Families cook their dogs.
Doctors operate by flashlight during frequent electrical blackouts.
Violent Crime
Rolling blackouts
And if you complain…you might disappear or be shot by government-sponsored street gangs called “Collectivos.”