Don't ask me - I am not Venezuelan ;-) But I know all this socialist/communist stuff from the past - luckily we got rid of them assholes in 1989. But the fact is that if the distribution of wealth is very uneven (and there is a considerable number of people who have next to nothing and no perspectives to change that do exist) then this creates excellent conditions for crap ideologies of this sort. So I would say that this is a side effect of aggressive capitalism. Keeping the social equilibrium and sharing wealth is the key.