I liked the part where the commenter blamed the government for shortages and economic instability rather than US sanctions.

I’ve heard people make the same complaints about Cuba, probably boils down to no material analysis

The reply, lol, literally describing the US and pretending sanction-ridden Venezuela is worse off because of its own government’s incompetence or it’s values of building homes and feeding the hungry:

Medicine is in short supply and if you want any chance of surviving a serious illness you go to private clinics, which always only accept dollars.

A 40 year old cousin of mine died because they didn’t have medicine that would have been in most hospitals in other countries. A 28 year old cousin of mine died of covid because there were no spots available in any clinic near her. My 60 year old uncle lost both his legs from a diabetes-linked infection because the state of his mental health didn’t allow him to take the meds prescribed by a private clinic at home and we didn’t have money to commit him.

Everyone there is fucked, even those who work for state companies.

A 35 year old cousin of mine worked for years for the state oil company and bought a very nice, big house in a brand new development. But when inflation was at infinity% and food was hard to get and she decided to leave the country for the sake of her children, she couldn’t sell her house for any amount of money to anyone, because everyone in the country was trying to leave(and still are, 6 years later).