1269: Venezuela | Out of the Loop
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Little Venice, big oil, bigger mess. You've probably heard the headlines and thought, all right, socialism, corruption, oil, got it. But that's kind of like saying, hey, Titanic, boat hits thing. The real story here is how a country with some of the largest oil reserves on Earth turned that resource into a regime ATM, hollowed out its institutions, banned civilian firearms, and then watched normal people get crushed between politics, cronies, and criminals, to the point where folks were literally staying in bed to avoid burning calories.
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