Venezuela has been falling apart for the past 10 years. It's interesting that Maduro hasn't been deposed yet.
I always tell people to read
Smedly Butlers, War is A Racket(link to pdf, its a few dozen pages, ILL STAKE WHATEVER REPUTATION I HAVE ON THIS RECOMMENDATION)
Smedly Butler is the second highest decorated US Marine of all time
Man fought in more wars than some of the badest mfers you know fought in BATTLES
Anyway I cant beg you all enough to read this book, dont do it for me, im just the conduit letting you know it exists, do it for the man who served his nation for 34 years at the very highest level from the front line, let him tell you about it he has earned that.
Sorry for the hard sell but this shit is foundational in my understanding of why we are where we are currently and how everything stays fucked. Its not a "flat earth" or "tartaria" bullshit or anything like that, its not even a underhanded "its all the jews" all that shit is way to simple, Butler breaks down in nuts and bolts how the military industrial complex works, how it breaks people and how its allowed to go on and will go on without our help.
ANYWAYYYYY
All that to see you see at the bottom where it says "banana warS"? Yea in the late 1800s we just kind of went into almost every south American nation and raped em for every dollar we could of their raw land wealth, usually in the form of, at the time, exotic fruits.
So one might say south America being a shithole is a bit of chickens coming home to roost but thats just one mans opinion.
go read the mans book