Empiricism also tells us that this Venezuelan food crisis was caused by sanctions on their oil as they had pulled manpower away from agriculture towards industry, relying on the purchasing power of their oil to import food. Combined with price control, inflation, and the further losing of the price on oil led to a destabilisation on the economy, leading to essentially what they have now as a military controlled food cartel.
Once again OrangeCunt (thanks @Gunnersaurus) fundamentally misunderstands a situation and talks out his arse.
Thousands of Venezuelan refugees cover the streets of Chicago, starving and freezing to death, many of them are children. Alienated from their culture, their family, their language, the schools, they suffer to survive in a hostile and alien place. They won’t prosper, they won’t succeed, this children are doomed to theft, drug dealing, and prostitution because the USA will punish Venezuela, but not help Venezuelans at all. And YOU want to sanction Venezuela more, a country whose people are literally starving to death because sanctions imposed on them pushed them from civil unrest to dying within five years of the protests. Nearly 8,000,000 people displaced from their home. But Maduro skirting democracy is more important than people’s lives, it’s not like a country under sanctions just creates a black market that skirts sanctions and leads to more money and power consolidation to the upper class through product scarcity, maybe @Dr. Gonzo can explain how that totally didn’t happen in Iran.
here are links you don’t read
https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/IF/IF10715#:~:text=Those sanctions and other international,Venezuelans to flee the country.
https://www.wola.org/2020/10/new-report-us-sanctions-aggravated-venezuelas-economic-crisis/
https://english.elpais.com/international/2024-04-19/how-us-sanctions-have-affected-venezuela.html?outputType=amp
https://gppreview.com/2023/07/03/us-sanctions-are-robbing-venezuelans-of-basic-human-rights/