REBUILDING VENEZUELA AFTER CHAVEZ, at Venezuela News And Views:

Under Chavez no major infrastructure work has been completed except for the occasional show off for electoral purpose, a small cardio hospital for children here, a cable car of limited capacity there. We live today on basically the same infrastructure that existed in 1999. But the economic needs have grown, and that structure has not been managed as it should have been done. As a consequence it is now overextended and  not only because it was insufficient in 1999, but the country has added a few million people while what has become an import economy forces  distribution of all what is consumed in Venezuela from not even a half dozen harbors.  A centralized logistical nightmare or corruption and inefficiency.

That passage resonates for some reason in America…