Can Venezuela Be Great Again?

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@GoodTimesBadTimes Ай бұрын

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@tyalikanky Ай бұрын

Can lake Chad be Megachad again?

@AaronVanWolfen Ай бұрын

As a Venezuelan who is living in Denmark, no... The culture towards authoritarianism and entitlement is too strong and the delusion of wealth makes everything worse. -"why we should work if we have oil?" -"why we should pay taxes if we have oil?" -"Why we should invest money if we have oil?" -"Why I should follow laws if I have money?" I remember hearing this bulls**** when i was a child and nothing has changed since. A Republic only works when its citizens know their duties and rights.... but in Venezuela the cultural greed for "easy wealth" and social status is what fuels the dictatorship.

@charlesbranscomb8493 Ай бұрын

That's stupid that's what the USA is currently doing

@leoF_0312 Ай бұрын

Unfortunately, even Venezuelans in South America, most of them basically homeless, keep saying the same and being arrogant despite their situation

@wisenup4541 Ай бұрын

Same thing venezuelans do when they come Trinidad to live they act as they better than us because the country big and have oil and want to talk down to is while being in our country to survive

@AlexM-uz1hg Ай бұрын

Well, thanks for making it clear :( Sad, but true.

@doujinflip Ай бұрын

Seems very similar in the GCC, where Saudi/Kuwaiti/Emirati/Qatari citizens will end up similarly unproductive and uncompetitive when they finally can't pay migrant workers to do everything for them.

@IloveDoubleD Ай бұрын

Sitting on natural resources doesn't make a country great, Having the intellectual ability to innovate and to create a government system that can keep grift and corruption at bay makes a country great.

@charlesbranscomb8493 Ай бұрын

You need a smart government for more than a decade to get the country stable and diversify diversify diversify your economy

@leoF_0312 Ай бұрын

So Venezuelans are doomed 😆

@doujinflip Ай бұрын

It's competent and trusted _institutions_ that are the key, which often happen through establishment in a difficult resource-poor locale. Hence why the modern world generally praises nations like Japan, Singapore, Botswana, and Uruguay over their larger, more endowed, but more corrupt neighbors (China, Indonesia, South Africa, Brazil).

@IloveDoubleD Ай бұрын

@@charlesbranscomb8493 Indeed Venezuela is a one horse economy, oil. And it will likely always be. Unless of course you want to include a economy based on tourism. If they can get people to come.

@JuanDeLaRosaTV Ай бұрын

It is not about the intellectual ability. It’s simply to have the desire to do so. Most oil tycoons of back then knew they could make money with oil, so they set out to find some and get rich. They were not “intellectually” gifted in any way-they just had the drive, the desire to get rich off of oil

@iippo06 Ай бұрын

Nobody is running away from Norway due to oil.

@kzazazazk Ай бұрын

Cause Norway doesn't fund 80% of its budget and social services with oil, so when the price drops they still survive. 😂

@dean_l33 Ай бұрын

@@kzazazazk Don't they pretty much fund everything from the interest from their oil trust fund

@kzazazazk Ай бұрын

@@dean_l33 Nah. It is predominantly a pension fund, so they do use it to invest in local and global businesses but it's not tied to government spending at all. In terms of direct investment the pension fund has nothing to do with it, that's just state and private spending. Petroleum makes up 9 percent of Norway's total economy and they've divested heavily. If oil prices ever did topple they'd still be alright, and if they had to they could vote on liquidating some of the pension fund to maintain social services, but they haven't ever done so before and it takes a massive vote of majority and process, the government can't actually touch it otherwise.

@jenspersson3420 Ай бұрын

They have also switched mostly to natural gas rather than oil, the oil fund is there as a plan b as well and to fund the welfare state if need be, fortunately they dont need to. Norway and norwegians didnt get rich until recently and living generations still know that fishing and sheeps are not preferable.

@jyy9624 Ай бұрын

@@dean_l33it's retirement money for Notwegians

@basvriese1934 Ай бұрын

I still think it's quite funny that overreliance on resource extraction is called Dutch disease, when it happened in the netherlands it was a really minor case compared to many other countries

@ollifrank6255 Ай бұрын

Yeah but the name stuck. It an actually only describes the effect on the exchange rate not all what comes with it.

@renaatsenechal Ай бұрын

Much like the spanish flue wasn't spanish at all. Only the conditions were there to study it

@TurtleChad1 Ай бұрын

I hope Venezuela can free itself from authoritarianism.

@everything373-z3b Ай бұрын

They will, sooner or later, let's hope sooner.

@ldavi296 Ай бұрын

I hope we do....

@rockstar450 Ай бұрын

Once socialist ideology leaves the state, maybe the people have a chance

@Hengre Ай бұрын

As a Norwegian who has been to Venezuela several times it is heartbreaking to see how different our societies has handled finding oil. Norway has a long history of democracy and equality going back centuries, all the way back to the Viking age and even before. Venezuela on the other hand is a much younger country that has a colonial history with a lot of inequality. Trust between citizens and to the institutions is a key in my opinion. If you compare our two countries Venezuela has much better climate and much larger natural resources. When they day comes that Venezuela once again gets it freedom, building trust and transparent institutions will be the thee key to a better future. For the wonderful people of Venezuela I hope that day will come soon and that they will build a new and stronger future for themselves and their children, grandchildren and future generations.

@tkm238-d4r Ай бұрын

Agree with you that the whole socio-political culture makes the ideal scenario less likely. The moment the Chavez system is dismantled, some elites and their ground supporters are just going to get a huge chunk of the goodies.🙄🙄

@rockstar450 Ай бұрын

Norway is capitalism perfected

@oppionatedindividual8256 Ай бұрын

@@rockstar450 it’s not capitalism perfected.. that would be laissez-faire. Norway is a social democracy as is painfully anti-male.

@rockstar450 Ай бұрын

@oppionatedindividual8256 Norway is NOT socialist 🤣 it's a FREE MARKET which allows PRIVATE ownership. The definition of capitalist. It isn't centrally managed except for services (paid for by high taxes) and a sovereign wealth fund. Ask any Scandinavian and they'll tell you their counties are capitalist. Even their universities are privately owned for competition (capitalist competition to promote innovstion). I love how Socialists need to steal capitalism to get a W lol

@342Rodry Ай бұрын

All south america wants venezuela to be great again, so venezuelans can leave us in peace

@wisenup4541 Ай бұрын

What problems they cause In your country

@342Rodry Ай бұрын

@wisenup4541 organized crime became a common thing, and a terrible culture in general, very annoying and hostiles.

@Joker-no1uh Ай бұрын

And the US. They are causing chaos right now. Literally, only Venezuelan and then that makes others look bad because people think it's all South American immigrants.

@kleinenfuchse5365 Ай бұрын

😭 how often do you shave your skröppel a year?

@MeowMeow_95_ Ай бұрын

@@wisenup4541a bunch of CRIMINALS from Venezuela are coming here! It’s awful!!! STAY THERE!!!!

@whiteuncleruckus Ай бұрын

Venezuela is kind of a non island Tropico 😂

@DavidTremblay Ай бұрын

I lived in Venezuela for one year in 1986 I was a 16 years old Canadian in a student exchange. I remember distinctly that the gaps between poor and rich was quite large. How the rich were so condescending at the time was also remarkable. I was living in a family whom, before the oil price collapse in early 1980, were going on shopping spree in miami for a weekend then back to work on monday. I remember being dismissed when I saying "your country isn't rich there's so many poor people" by this answer "those aren't from Venezuela they are columbian illegals" Anyhow at this time and being a Venezuelan, I would probably had welcome the Chavez revolution not knowing any better

@tkm238-d4r Ай бұрын

Good point that you make about the $$$ gap. For the lower end, it's either the Chavez system that at least gives them some goodies or a so-called free market system where they may get nothing. 🙄🙄

@XxLIVRAxX Ай бұрын

And the poor became even poorer and more desperate than ever before. The iron law of oligarchy.

@XxLIVRAxX Ай бұрын

@@tkm238-d4rThe poor had plenty of social programs from the 60s and 70s, the economic crisis of the 80s forced public spending cuts, add a failed push to industrialize the country with state owned heavy industry companies that mostly failed and left the country endebted.

@dosmastrify Ай бұрын

That's funny I feel like I hear this line in America too

@fearlesspotato3429 Ай бұрын

Well if we're being honest here Venezuela is about the earliest examples of what happens to a nation with cultural diversity. Back in the 1950s Venezuela had some very tight immigration laws but once the military government fell the bureaucrats opened borders and everyone was allowed in, millions of Europeans flooded the country, impoverishing the people and bastardizing the culture, spreading their socialist ideologies and ultimately using poor Colombian migrants as fuel for their socialists Revolution. If you see venezuelan elites there's not one who's family existed in Venezuela before 1960, none. So the Venezuelan socialist revolution was not pushed by venezuelans but by foreigners, both rich and poor.

@cz1589 Ай бұрын

Shared and liked. Another example of 'Putins useful idiots'.

@zkittlezthabanditt604 Ай бұрын

What? Shared and liked?

@RickGods Ай бұрын

As a Venezuelan there is only one way to make Venezuela greater than ever, we need to belive and get together and defeats our demons for good and thats not going to be easy but the promise land is there waiting to be taken back.

@everything373-z3b Ай бұрын

For sure they can, just get rid of Maduro, do not use the oil money directly (use it on investment) and that's it.

@junovzla Ай бұрын

yeah lmao if it was that simple we would've done that ages ago

@nolimit6241 Ай бұрын

Yeah but what other dictatorships w americas support was free and liberal 🤔 🤣

@Jorginni08 Ай бұрын

Answer: not with Maduro.

@adarret Ай бұрын

Thank you for reporting the Lighter/Better Quality nature of the oil from the Starbuck Fields off Guyana, makes more sense now…

@collintrytsman3353 Ай бұрын

excellent as always

@michaelericlambert2487 Ай бұрын

Your videos are impressive and well-executed. I look forward to seeing more.

@petrbartovsky410 Ай бұрын

beautiful work

@mihaiburloiu367 Ай бұрын

Brother, the word is 'Venezuelan', not 'Venezuelian'.

@ggvacm4st3r79 Ай бұрын

Make Venezuela Great Again

@kleinenfuchse5365 Ай бұрын

Arp den schaufel arp den twut?

@crazytootzplays1597 Ай бұрын

this was way too funny

@MisterSplendy Ай бұрын

Tell us, when was Venezuela ever great???😂

@kleinenfuchse5365 Ай бұрын

@@MisterSplendy back in the twutties yes

@kleinenfuchse5365 Ай бұрын

@@MisterSplendy SplenTWUT

@bridezilla3758 Ай бұрын

Venezuela? Or Venezuelia??

@g4m3r222 Ай бұрын

maduro and the communists must go

@dean_l33 Ай бұрын

You can just say communist must go

@XxLIVRAxX Ай бұрын

Ironically, the Communist Party is at odds with Maduro and several communist are imprisoned.

@dosmastrify Ай бұрын

I like when Hubert narrating

@GainingDespair Ай бұрын

Venezuela is a clear example of the resource curse, where a country rich in natural resources finds itself in a tough spot. The wealth generated from these resources reduces the need for citizens to engage in revenue generation. With minimal reliance on tax income, the government often neglects the needs of its people, resulting in a decline in quality of life and stunted economic growth. This situation frequently leads to the establishment of an aristocratic or dictatorial government, as the ruling elite can maintain control without needing the support of the general populace. Ultimately, the principle is that loyalty often depends on financial incentives; when the military and police are well-paid by the ruling party, they are more likely to support that regime rather than consider any other alternatives.

@deviousdevil75 Ай бұрын

Nice work Well done

@GHST995 Ай бұрын

Ugo Havez really put this country on a path to the stone age. Good luck compadres.

@daniell1483 Ай бұрын

Something worth pointing out, Venezuela has a lot of oil, but it is generally of very poor quality. It has a lot of admixture that damages the systems it is used within. So yes, high quantity/low quality oil is what you find in Venezuela.

@ollifrank6255 Ай бұрын

I visited Venezuela in in 1999, Chavez just got elected and didn’t implement any of his policies yet and already saw a country in trouble. The country looked like a museum of the US 1970’s with extreme income gaps. Almost no own industrial production as if having oil was enough. But still, the country was in good spirits. Later on, I made Venezuelan friends at work and from neighboring countries that had visited the country. Venezuela was not great at all, except for a few. Chavez election was a mislead response to a bad situation and he and later Maduro then made everything much worse.

@jacobjones630 Ай бұрын

Yeah they can wind up like utopian right wing country Argentina!

@XxLIVRAxX Ай бұрын

Actually that would be a better starting point than what we got, we have no functioning public healthcare system or education, its de facto privatized.

@sydbius 10 күн бұрын

Venezuela could be great with its resources, weather, climate and tropical weather. Could be the leaders of green architecture, green design and biomimicry and bio diversity. So much potential that we probably won’t see it In our lifetime.

@Sven-jx6uv Ай бұрын

A sovereign fund like in Norway would never work in any Latin American country. You can save for decades, then a politician will come along and say: "elect me and get free money" and it's gone. The saving for the future mentality is not existent in the culture, and any pile of money laying around will only be a focus center for intense corruption. Best to have bilateral agreements with the West for development of physical infrastructure that will remain with the people.

@ChairmanMeow1 Ай бұрын

Blaming oil is crazy. There's only one thing to blame - bad management.

@junovzla Ай бұрын

and the bad management is attracted by the oil because it's cheap money

@amunx1 Ай бұрын

Oil is a causality by effect that human nature of greed is more prone to happen.

@HakeemSliver Ай бұрын

That voice is powerful Venezuela 🥺

@bobjohnson3940 Ай бұрын

In this case, you need the thing that took you out. You definitely need to restart production, but, learn from what happened and expand into other things. The key question is, does this depend on a new regime or not? Probably.

@Gwanzan3325 Ай бұрын

Do not mistake the benefits of the era for your personal qualities.

@nicelol5241 Ай бұрын

Many people blame the government but its not just their fault but the petrols dependency as well

@GustavoAndresAcostaRomero Ай бұрын

Just for the record, Venezuela has always been slightly fucked. Yea, we've had oil bonanzas, but wealth has never been distributed properly. We're just really fucked up now. I'd say the question is "Can Venezuela ever be great?"

@vulpo Ай бұрын

I thought I had bugs running across my screen. 😆

@GreatRetro Ай бұрын

I feel so happy for Norway!

@crazytootzplays1597 Ай бұрын

I have doubts democracy will return to here.

@GreatRetro Ай бұрын

Daaamn, Venezuela had such a BIG chance to revive their Oil sector, wren ruZia attacked Ukraine and the West stoped buying ruZian oil!!! If Venezuela then in 2022 used this chance, they would be way b etter off right now....but seems that they blew it...

@XxLIVRAxX Ай бұрын

Maduro is a Putin ally, what do you expect?

@fearlesspotato3429 Ай бұрын

The Short answer is "no" The long answer is "Absolutely not lol" Venezuela like all south american nations are what ine calls "colonial cultures" people exists within very strict social classes and people are taught from birth that they were born to be part of said class by an authoritarian detail they chose, often times is race, rarely however is ideology or family. This types of cultures historically only dies through war and struggle, one example is russia how this type of culture only died after ww1 and the Soviet revolution only for decades of safety turned the Russian into a slave once more. But south america has the curse of Peace, geographically too safe, racially too logical, and historically, too unimportant. The perfect place for eternal peace and as a result this culture hasn't died even after their Independence. So the only way for south america to prosper is to be ruled by foreigners, not locals. Or to be destroyed in genicidal wars. A similar Nation to Venezuela and south America in general is Egypt, they have never prospered under Egyptian rule, but have prospered greatly under nubian, greek, roman, persian and arabic rule, never Egyptian. Colonial cultures are not capable of creating wealth on their own, they need better peoples to rule them. Another great example is India, another nation with a colonial culture, and again ni indian local has made india prosper but Afghans, mongols and British have.

@MoNICA-se3gc Ай бұрын

With good politicians YES

@LibertyPrime-ur5vt Ай бұрын

When a communist runs a country, consider it lost.

@nolimit6241 Ай бұрын

Venezuela isn't communist is socialist w a capitalist economy

@XxLIVRAxX Ай бұрын

If we get a political transition, the profound institutional reforms that had already been called for in the 1980s and initiate an integration with the West, we have a shot at long term prosperity. That path was denied to us by Chavez and his populist authoritarian rule that unfortunately coincided with the largest oil bonanza that helped him consolidate his regime. At the moment, we have no roadmap to democracy.

@TheHunterOfYharnam Ай бұрын

Do a video about the soon to be kurdistan

@Boon2Dock Ай бұрын

Listen, I just want some cachapa. Ok? Fix the damn economy!

@justinallen122 Ай бұрын

Hey meng

@boomba6686 Ай бұрын

good time bad time

@nikkobriteramos314 Ай бұрын

#nikkobriteramos

@notbochka Ай бұрын

of course, its booming, papasiaa campaign all over the internet hahahah, could be nice if you do a video about lebanon

@wadedeeds1738 Ай бұрын

Not hardly

@KemonoFriendsOfficial Ай бұрын

Was Venezuela ever great? No.

@ghost.8836 Ай бұрын

In the 1950s we were one of the biggest global economies and now look at us in the mud thanks to Maduro and Chávez

@andreylucass Ай бұрын

It never was.

@Adam-kj2lh Ай бұрын

Dans les années 60 le Venezuela faisait partie des 5 pIn the 60s Venezuela was among the 5 richest countries in the world and even until 2013 it was the richest in Latin America per capita.

@leoF_0312 Ай бұрын

2:02 mm🥚s

@IloveDoubleD Ай бұрын

It has never been great.

@Adam-kj2lh Ай бұрын

In the 60s Venezuela was among the 5 richest countries in the world and even until 2013 it was the richest in Latin America per capita.

@aersn4locs Ай бұрын

@abcdef-l2c8t Ай бұрын

Well, all their gangsters are moving to the USA, so maybe they venezuela can improve in their absence.

@mattdouplesx Ай бұрын

Not just USA. All over the America's.

@abraham2172 Ай бұрын

Thats complete nonsence. If all the gangsters were gone, crime rates in Venezuela wouldnt be so high.

@Adam-kj2lh Ай бұрын

I hear a lot of people in the comments saying that Venezuela was never big, that's not true in the 50s and 60s the country was among the 5 richest countries in the world per capita And even until 2013 it is the richest country in Latin America per capita, I agree about corruption and bad governance have destroyed Venezuela, but we must also add the illegal sanctions of the United States which prevents Venezuela from trading with the rest of the world

@Kenneth_James Ай бұрын

Why are these guys like Maduro so ridiculous? Why not just get uber wealthy and go live in the south of France or some other beautiful and comfortable place?

@XxLIVRAxX Ай бұрын

Power for power sake, there is no replacement for that.

@yohananberrocal4586 Ай бұрын

No, Venezuela will never be great again.

@MrLachlan1903 Ай бұрын

This comment is too stop sometime getting first.

@G-Man-half-life Ай бұрын

Venezuela was never great to begin with.

@FKAS8410 Ай бұрын

I WILL CONSIDER LEAVING A LIKE TO AID THEEEE ALGORHYTM.

@Sayilswtor Ай бұрын

Never gonna happen

@ISTP8w9 Ай бұрын

Can these guys get someone else to narrate, this guy's accent is too strong and annoying.

@everything373-z3b Ай бұрын

Please make a video about Bolivia's future.

@Strykenine Ай бұрын

We could export some American greatness to our friends in Venezuela. We're overfull at the moment.

@anonymousperson9735 Ай бұрын

Sure let's get a version of the guy who tried to stage a coup in our country. That makes a lot of sense.

@abraham2172 Ай бұрын

American "greatness" under Trump😂😂😂

@smartguy360 Ай бұрын

only if they get rid of maduro

@steadyashegoes7763 Ай бұрын

Why didn't you get into the coming territorial war with their neighbor? Don't you think that will have a big impact on their economy and global politics?

@XxLIVRAxX Ай бұрын

There is no incoming war, the armed forces of Venezuela are utterly uncapable of a military operation of that magnitude, its a glorified praetorian guard.

@steadyashegoes7763 Ай бұрын

@XxLIVRAxX they may appear to be very weak compared to most forces, but they are much stronger than their neighbor.

@griffenrice2521 Ай бұрын

Oooof, I normally like the insights and analysis provided, but talking about South America without mentioning colonization and American imperialism is incredibly myopic. Also, talking about twilighting oil in one breath and then encouraging production in another is insane. Given that this channel has already likened the green energy movement to the opium wars, I'm starting to worry about the turn this channel may be taking.

@amunx1 Ай бұрын

@@griffenrice2521 It's more myopic to be in your position. My guess is that you live in USA or any other first world country who has colonized- you can correct me if I'm wrong but I'm sure I'm not. The issue of Venezuela is neither imperialism or colonization (which ended 200 years ago). That's an imposed woke agenda from people living in USA/other first worlds pretending to be know it alls of the current situation in Latin America. You know little to nothing bout it mate.