Before the wrath of "democratic socialism" (ala Bernie Sanders)... Venezuela was a food exporter. The Oranoco River valley has rich fertile soil, and with its low latitude location (right near the equator) they can grow two full season of many cereal grains and major crops. They also have regular tropical rains so little need for irrigation.

This happened in the old Soviet Union in the 1920s, in Eastern Europe in the 1950s, in Cuba and North Korea from the 1960s on, and in Zimbabwe (Rhodesia) since the 1980s.

It never works, never will. It can't. Yet the democrats in our nation will still insist that these are not fair comparisons and that it just needs to be carried out properly...