Why is it said that Chavez "ruined" Venezuela?

As the saying goes, "Everyone is responsible for the rise and fall of a country." That is to say, everyone is responsible for the rise and fall of a country. But in fact, the rise and fall of a country often depends solely on individual leaders. In other words, if the leader adopts correct policies while he is in office, the country will naturally continue to grow stronger and stronger. But on the other hand, if a leader adopts wrong policies while in office, it will ultimately bring disaster to the country. The most typical one is Chavez. Although Chavez is a great president, why is it said that Chavez "ruined" Venezuela? You may not think that there is only one root cause.

We know that Venezuela is actually a prosperous country in South America. The country has very favorable geographical conditions and is located on the Caribbean coast. Its land area exceeds 900,000 square kilometers and its population exceeds 30 million. The most important thing is that the land is fertile, the rain is abundant, and the resources are abundant. The total reserves of oil resources alone exceed that of Saudi Arabia, which is the first in the world.

So this country can actually develop and become rich quickly just by relying on its own land and resources. But we see that Venezuela now has become a very failed country, especially in the country where poverty is extremely poor and the entire people are miserable.

Even the middle class makes a living by picking up garbage, and the country relies on foreign debt to survive, making the country a failed state. Many people attribute Venezuela's misery to current President Maduro, but in fact it was Chavez who really ruined Venezuela. Why do you say that? There is only one fundamental reason, and that is "cultivating the laziness of the people."

We know that labor and creation are the only sources of wealth, and anything else is unreliable. Therefore, the benefits provided by the state to the people should not be too high, but should stimulate people's diligence. But after Chavez came to power, in order to win the support of the people. Therefore, we continue to improve people's living standards, so we increase people's wages, welfare benefits, and even free education, free medical care, and free housing without restraint.

For a while, Venezuelan people became the happiest and richest people in the world, which is especially obvious. However, because the benefits and treatment are too high, Venezuelan people have gradually developed a state of pampering, which means they are constantly lazy and sinking. It is precisely because of Chavez that Venezuelan people began to develop inertly. This is the biggest mistake.

When oil profits are high, the country can naturally support it. But once oil declines, this will be unsustainable. So we saw that after Chavez's death, international oil prices continued to fall, which ultimately led to the misery of the entire country. Because the fields are barren but unwilling to be cultivated, the factories are closed down but there is no one to rescue them, the whole country is waiting for the government.

For this reason, the government had to borrow money to survive, which further aggravated the foreign debt and misery of the entire country, leading to the current tragic ending. Therefore, although Chavez used welfare to get the people to support him, it was precisely this that destroyed the hard-working nature of the country, which is why Venezuela is so miserable now.

It can’t be undone until now, which is very helpless. Even if Russia and our country cannot help Venezuela overcome the difficulties, the entire future will still be miserable, because once laziness is formed, it is difficult to change, so Chavez ruined Venezuela.