How Much of Venezuela’s Crisis is Really Maduro’s Fault?

[consortiumnews.com]

(Prominent in the latter category is Maduro’s lethargic response to the problem of the widening disparity between official prices set by the government on certain items in short supply and their prices on the black market. The government has encountered major problems in distributing basic commodities forcing Venezuelans to buy those same goods on the higher-priced black market. The system is conducive to corruption and contraband as many of the products that are supposed to be retailed at reduced prices end up being sold on the black market or sent off to neighboring Colombia.)

I still fail to see how you can put the blame on Maduro for this issue. Isn’t he forced to either allow the private sector to deplete the product which would create the same outcome, over providing the product to society by some means, reaching a probability more citizens access to the product. Not every situation is that of Kimberly-Clark. Where it was discovered they were holding out on production with a loaded warehouse while claiming they had no raw materials to produce. He can’t possibly step into every situation as he did there. Just what are we talking about anyways? Flour? Which is one of the products I know is hard to find now there. If the private sector is hoarding flour causing high prices, socially or black market, and it’s listed in the sanctions and unable to reach the country outside of the private sector, I fail to see that as a means to blame Maduro as being his distribution management problem. But a problem manufactured by inside and outside sources. You’re just not going to convinced me Maduro is the problem when it’s obvious every problem around him at the this time is being manufactured by those around him that lifting sanctions and private sector strife can solve! When you give him that luxury and he then fails to produce, then I can be persuaded.