>>82178828 (OP)
I live in Venezuela. We are not starving. In fact, my salary as a petrol engineer here is comparable to that of an American engineer. The real problem is that the provate sector here, which tolerates Maduro through patronage, pays their employees very little and keeps raising prices. We started using crypto exchangeable for petrol commodity futures to circumvent the devaluation of our currency by the elites who hoard wealth in dollars and renminbi. Those who are educated can easily survive and live very well.
Maduro was elected and expanded democracy. More people get more of a say in how their communities are run, and people aren't just murdered for no reason with their killers being free like pre-Chavez. While I don't support Maduro because he is a milquetoast nationalist and refuses to challenge the elites directly, nobody in Venezuela says he isn't better than the murderous actual starvation regime pre-Chavez. Back then, people actually died of malnutrition and starvation... and on purpose.
For reference, 15% of venezuela in 2024 was food insecure
In United States, that number is 13.5%.
We are not that different. Maduro is just Venezuelan Trump but slightly left.