Venezuela is an example of a petrostate, where the government is highly dependent on fossil fuel income.
Petrostates are vulnerable to what economists call Dutch disease, in which a government develops an unhealthy dependence on natural resource exports to the detriment of other sectors.
The oil price plunge from more than $100 per barrel in 2014 to under $30 per barrel in early 2016 sent Venezuela into an economic and political spiral, and despite rising prices since then, conditions remain bleak.
(Source: Council of Foreign Relations)
So yeah, socialism didn’t kill the Venezuelan economy, over-reliance on fossil fuel did.
Didn’t you hear? They stopped the roof knocking policy they’ve been pretending makes them the good ones, dropping all pretense that they care about civilian lives any more than Hamas and Hezbollah do.
Another fun banana fact: banana equivalent dose is also the threshold at which a beer is allowed to be classified as non-alcoholic in spite of not technically being completely devoid of alcohol.
The (quite reasonable) compromise being that any content below the 0.5% some bananas contain metabolizes so quickly that it’s literally impossible to get drunk on it and furthermore too dilute for even the severely allergic and people on medicine with adverse interactions to feel any ill effects.
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