You can say harder, but clearer not! As always, excellent explanatory post, @dedicatedguy. The cunning of a malandro government and on the other hand, the ingenuity of a gullible people, have turned Venezuela into a broken pocket, an empty wallet. Added to what you are saying very well, is the creation of ghost companies by the government to allocate large amounts of dollars to them. All those dollars went to the accounts of those corrupt politicians, who more shamelessly promote their wealth in an impoverished people. There are the names of many of those Chavista characters on the list of the richest people in the world. People who have never worked or inherited family property are the owners of great fortunes. As the saying goes: they get paid and give themselves change. The only thing left for us Venezuelans is to denounce; to say that even though this group of the population eats, sees, and lives very well; there is another group that goes hungry, that a chicken costs us 10 SBD, that a pair of shoes costs more than 30 SBD. That the majority of Venezuelans only eat two meals a day, that some are anemic and that very few can continue studying. Thank you for always being our voice, @dedicatedguy and @adsactly for giving space for these comments.