What? a poorly designed tax systems, tax evasion and tax avoidance had the the fault? yeah right, I don't think so, everything I think is summarized by a word "Corruption" I don't know if corruption is born of socialism or is the socialism where the worst people use to climb on. All those governments are extremely centralized and with exclusive monopoly of all resources.

Now in the case of Venezuela, the examples that other Venezuelans have already given are very true and I think there is little that I can add, but here the government contracts are all a stew ( this is how we said. It's like saying many bills in a pot very over spiced :)), so one guys get a contract to pave the streets and the next day is a millionaire in Miami, certain stories are all over the internet.

OHH I almost forgot, they love to blame a third, The so called "economic war" but even now a lot of people still follow them because the government took over food distribution chains and centralized all as a tactic.