Venezuela political situation/humanitarian Crisis - Page 10

On February 06 2019 11:27 JimmiC wrote:
@nebuchad it is likely my bias that are making react perhaps to harsh. Who is the guy? And why should I believe him?

I'm always skeptical of someone who acts like he's got it all figured out and the rest of people are snowed, especially at this guys age. But perhaps I'm judging a book by the cover. Do you know his education level and is his knowledge based on some specific research or traveling to these places or something?

On February 07 2019 03:03 RvB wrote:

That doesn't cause a collapse this large though. Venezuela has been suffering from dutch disease for more than a century. They never collapsed this badly. Neither did any other oil producing country. Even Iraq didn't collapse like this while it's incredibly oil dependent, as corrupt as Venezuela and went through a war against IS. For me it's pretty clear it's socialist economic policy which exacerbated the crisis to such an extent. But I was also curious what he thought.