I don't think you realize how utterly disastrous Chavez was for Venezuela. Maybe consider taking your own advice.

Chavez' officials, like Venezuela's own Elizabeth Warren, Karlin Granadillo, claimed "the law of supply and demand is a lie", and her socialist party nodded in unison to this ideological rhetoric:

https://web.archive.org/web/20201112003937/http://www.bloomb...

Only an echo chamber can allow this kind of economic illiteracy to proliferate.