Venezuela faces economic and social collapse
Their socialism is killing them. That and the drastic drop in the price of oil.
As Venezuela’s economic crisis — which led to severe shortages and high inflation even before the collapse in the price of oil — steadily escalates, Mr. Maduro’s reaction has been the opposite of Mr. Castro’s. Rather than seeking to improve relations with the country most able to supply fresh investment, the Venezuelan ruler has expelled U.S. diplomats and escalated anti-American rhetoric. Most recently, state prosecutors charged, ludicrously, that opposition leader María Corina Machado and the U.S. ambassador to Colombia were part of a conspiracy to assassinate Mr. Maduro.