Is it the fault of the USA that Venezuela’s currency is so devalued that a great part of the population has to emigrate outside the country?

  • zepheriths@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    2
    arrow-down
    22
    ·
    1 year ago

    They had a national welfare system that to my understanding was very extensive, but just handed out money. What if that money was instead moved to the creation of other sectors and welfare was done through that

    • deathtoreddit
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      18
      ·
      edit-2
      1 year ago

      First of all, your sentence is a contradiction on its own. A national welfare system that just handed money? Lula’s policies are more akin to that. Second, Veneuzela did move its resources to other sectors of its economy (i.e housing) https://venezuelanalysis.com/news/12946/

    • cayde6ml
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      14
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      1 year ago

      It was. Not much you can do when you are psychologically abused and sabotaged by a larger next door neighbor.