My point is that your rosy picture of the Venezuelan economy as very healthy is more or less a fabrication.

Rampant inflation?

Come on man, partisanship shouldn't blind you to the problems that a country is having. It's like someone denying that the US economy is in straits because We r Capitlizzt!

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