It will get darker and darker, it may/will (unfortunately) cost more lives, but I hope that once clean elections take place (and a couple of government terms down the road) normality and calm will be established, and all that will be a thing of the past. Judging from Argentina's problems - I know, not the same source of problems - things are now better off than 10-15 years ago. Still in recovery mode, but the darkest days are a thing of the past.

Edit: adding the below (apologies) timeline

-Big Oil corporations tried to do business in Venezuela.

-Having a massive public sector, I bet there was A LOT of bribery involved.

-Big corporations then played the greed-game.

-Someone decided to have a revolution and bit the hand that was feeding him (bribes/public sector).

-Then then got caught in a Oil-price-power-game that hurt Russia and some other satellite countries.

-Been unable to cope with the lack of 'free-oil-money' they got caught unprepared to go through the financial challenges - no savings, no FX.

-As a country, Venezuela was living on the respective 'salary-loans', they went bust on the first hiccup.

-And it all went downhill after that. It took Venezuela a decade to get where it is now, it will take another 20 years to fix things.

Root Cause Analysis: oh so many things.. huge public sector service, very little privatization, plenty of bureaucracy, centralization of decisions (central government)