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EX500rider

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9. Please, Venz's problems are all self-inflicted:
Sat Jan 30, 2016, 12:15 PM
Jan 2016

Single product economy, confiscation of foreign owned facilities driving away foreign investment, poorly thought out currency controls, command economy price controls during rampant inflation-caused by running the currency printing presses 24-7, give away prices on some consumer items guaranteeing smuggling and a black market-resulting in organized crime flourishing and resulting in one of the highest murder rates on the planet, with Caracas being the murder capitol of the world, replacing competent managers with yes-men (causing a 25% drop in oil production) and suppression of a free press and opposition.

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