# What's happening to Venezuela?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-happening-to-venezuela/757883>\
**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [June 20, 2016, 11:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-happening-to-venezuela/757883 "2016-06-20T11:52:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![Grey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b782af/32.png) [@Grey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grey)\
**Post date:** [June 23, 2016, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-happening-to-venezuela/757883/61 "2016-06-23T16:28:56Z")

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Well you’ve got them wanting to force out a number of American fracking companies, hurt Russian oil production and prevent Iranian acquisition of market share now the the various boycotts have been lifted on them.

Regardless, Chavez and his little experiment have left the country in tatters despite all the bloviating about sinister, American duped, traitors preventing true prosperity.

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**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\
**Post date:** [December 15, 2016, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-happening-to-venezuela/757883/62 "2016-12-15T16:51:31Z")

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[People are now giving away their children because they can’t feed them.](https://ca.news.yahoo.com/poor-venezuelan-parents-away-children-amid-deep-crisis-141708650.html)

[The government is pulling the 100 Bolivar out of circulation.](http://qz.com/860821/venezuelas-nicolas-maduro-is-pulling-the-100-bolivar-bill-out-of-circulation/)

This cannot continue. Something is going to break soon.

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