The US has it's fingers in all of the pies in the world, but I'd have to put this failure for the most part on the reliance of a single resource, oil, a commodity at that, for the entire working capital of a national economy...plus corruption and a total lack of any accounting of funds. This is a self inflicted Venezuelan wound.
It's tricky accounting for how much of the situation in Venezuela is because of U.S. policy.
The US has it's fingers in all of the pies in the world, but I'd have to put this failure for the most part on the reliance of a single resource, oil, a commodity at that, for the entire working capital of a national economy...plus corruption and a total lack of any accounting of funds. This is a self inflicted Venezuelan wound.