Originally posted by Breacher: ...oil companies do the bulk of the actual work. Like the Saudis, they are the "legitimate" government which is paid off not to have any trouble, and in that payoff, they make as much trouble as they can.
Barter economy it should be. Pack up a few shiploads of humanitarian ration packs and make that the only thing they get paid with.
That's the whole problem. The Venezuela government owns the Venezuela oil industry. Maduro is using the oil money to pay off his military (and depositing the rest in his Swiss ban account, I'm sure). And since nobody outside Venezuela will accept bolivares at the official exchange rate, it wouldn't work anyway.
