- Hyperinflation rate so astronomical you won’t believe it
- Water shortage
- Food shortage
- Civil strife
- Rolling black outs
- Russia installs military presence taking sides with Nicolas Maduro
- U.S. contemplates aid and incidentally has sided with declared President Juan Guaido
- Journalists arrested
- Socialist policy since Chavez leaderships in 1999
If you eliminate incentives for business to produce goods and services, they will stop. If you pay people not to produce, they will not produce. If you do not sanction poor behavior, people will continue to behave badly. If you overregulate the ambitious, they will turn elsewhere for a market. If you condone corruption, you will get more of it. If you sense injustice and fail to acknowledge it, you will subscribe to the status quo. If you witness crime and fail to report it, you are complicit. If your leadership is ambivalent toward justice, your society is regressing.