INTRODUCTION The case that will be documented here is that Venezuela’s people are suffering from a tragic national situation which actually cannot be reversed by anything that’s within the power of Venezuela’s Government to do or to block. In order to understand this very unfortunate reality (if one wants to understand it), one must first understand the relevant parts of the broader situation in the world that affects Venezuela. What’s dooming the country isn’t merely a local situation, but instead is global and environmental. It also is economic, pertaining to the role that Venezuela is playing in the global economy. But the economic factor is definitely not of the kind that it’s commonly assumed and alleged to be (http://web.archive.org/web/20190124090920/https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/07/16/how-venezuela-struck-it-poor-oil-energy-chavez/). It is instead very different. Here, this very different reality will be both described and documented (instead of just founded upon assumptions — many of which are false — such as the standard, basically local, economic ‘explanation’ of Venezuela’s troubles (http://web.archive.org/web/20190124090920/https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/07/16/how-venezuela-struck-it-poor-oil-energy-chavez/) is, which focuses on Venezuela’s socialism, or the economy’s being not sufficiently capitalist). What it all comes down to, stated in its briefest terms, is that no nation can do anything but lose money by selling the world’s dirtiest oil, … Meer lezen over Eric Zuesse – Why Venezuela’s People Are Suffering