No way life is going to be ultimately better for the people of Venezuela under such a system.
There aren't many countries this side of Yemen, Syria, or NK where it's actually
worse than now in Venezuela... so yes, there is a good chance that without Maduro it would be better. Of course when you think that humanitarian aid for starving population is fraud then you can justify just about anything.
I'll reserve judgement on that until AFTER the attack by the BIS-based central banking cartel is over. Especially after seeing the fully stocked store in Caracas which Max Blumenthal visited (link above.)
Seems fairly obvious to me that there is plenty of food, at least in some places. Toothpaste also. The problem is mostly that money doesn't work, and it's equally obvious that that is the attack vector being used against these people. Hopefully they can make something work with crypto.
When things are scarce, its because the prices are fixed AND the officials are doing their "job". I live here, you don't. We had periods where it was indeed impossible to find things like toothpaste or toilet paper and many other things like car batteries or lamp bulbs.
Prices of many things are "still fixed", but business simply disregard the socialist rules. From time to time Maduro orders officials to imprison managers who disobey the "fair price law", and during those times things would disappear for months again, only to re-appear in the "black market" at outrageous prices.
When things reappear (such as right now) the officials are not doing their job, are being bribed, or are tired. There are still shortages, more or less rotational. Sometimes its cooking oil, sometimes its mayo, sometimes its soap. More and more things are reappearing, all imported, things that used to be manufactured in Venezuela for much cheaper prices, but that was before socialism destroyed the economy and made them go bankrupt, or in some cases gave the ownership to workers who in turn made them go bankrupt (they had no choice, the socialist imposed them ridiculously low prices for their products to remain profitable no matter who owned "the means of production" anyway).
In health the situation is much much worse. I have acquaintances that left the country, remaining here would mean dead to them. Several diabetes patients are unable to take their medicine, people go blind and have all the nasty effects and short life someone untreated goes. Same with all diseases, basically there is no treatment (or healthcare for that matter).
Its "illegal" to send food or medicine, but this has been occurring on a massive scale. Either by bribing customs or smuggling. There is also a small group of importers tied to Maduro, they get permits and subsidized dollars. Only when the socialist "controls" fail or dwindle, things reappear (in the market), but because the "rules" are still there, and the market remains intervened, there are heavy disruptions both in price and availability and they happen at random. Don't count that you will find toilet paper (at any price) in that place every day, you won't.
It is not a matter of "the coin failing", The coin was destroyed by Maduro, some think intentionally. Because Lenin once said: "Destroy the money to destroy capitalists". The inflation of the coin is 80% Maduro's policies. He spends too much, and then the money was gone, he ordered to print more, taxing the entire population and destroying the REAL wage.
In 2009 an average wage was 250 USD, and now is 8 USD. The socialists ironically reduced the wages, and at the same time destroyed the economy by forbidding everything attempting to "control" the marker and provoking much worse side effects.
At the same time... The destruction of the economy damaged all public services, such as health and education, but actually everything, water, electricity, police, everything including the military have serious maintenance problems and even lack of personnel, due to people quitting and many leaving the country.
The "Fully stocked store" means nothing when only a few can actually buy the things there. The hypocrite in the video paid with USD, paying with physical currency is a privilege few Venezuelans can do, even the banknotes become scarce from time to time, debit card is what the majority of Venezuelans use.
Also nobody explained the ignorant American many things in that shop have weird names BECAUSE it what some suppliers managed to evade the "price law". Why camomile scented? Because the price fixed the normal variant. Why is the shampoo not called shampoo but "hair pre treatment"? Why is the milk labelled "reconstituted lactic liquid" or some other weird euphemism? Because it was the only way they could keep producing and selling it at market price. Anything that survived socialism and still exists and works, does it because it managed to evade the socialist rules one way or the other.
All that food can be seized by the people thus solving the problem? Is that what your socialist mind thinks? Do you think that hasn't been tried here? And what where the results? They have sacked those supermarkets before, you get 6 hour lines for a few days, then the place remains closed and empty for months, some never reopen. Even the socialists currently usurping power eventually stopped doing that as it provoked much more unrest later. Tho they still do it from time to time, at random, or when Maduro feels like so.
In socialism there is no rule of law, only the rule of the executive branch which is usually a small elite group on the top.
These descriptions don't match anything in your theories but its what your theories always produce. Because you haven't had a chance to try and live with them, you keep defending it. If you had won over there and made America bankrupt, you would understand my position. But you still "believe" in socialism, because it has to be an act of faith since all evidence shows it results in far much worse living conditions, corruption and its worse for everyone, ESPECIALLY the poor.
But you don't know what really means, or pass months without eating an ounce of meat or cheese, due to socialist results on the economy. All you do is preach from your ivory tower, your paradise of wealth and overabundance, and overall, your freedom.
The Economic Policies that Ruined Venezuela
