Venezuela is one of the biggest socialist disasters in modern history. And Socialists are now back tracking and claiming that it was not has.
Here are some sources you can use to counter these weasels.
This is from Bernie Sanders own website. (Link Bellow)
https://www.sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/must-read/close-the-gaps-disparities-that-threaten-america
At the very last sentence.
QuoteThese days, the American dream is more apt to be realized in South America, in places such as Ecuador, Venezuela and Argentina, where incomes are actually more equal today than they are in the land of Horatio Alger. Who's the banana republic now?
Socialist celebrities such as Michael Moore praised it.
https://twitter.com/mmflint/status/309124649244057600?lang=en
Economist Mark Weisbrot praised it: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/nov/07/venezuela-not-greece-latin-america-oil-poverty
As did Joseph Stiglitz: https://venezuelanalysis.com/news/2719
And David Sirota: https://www.salon.com/2013/03/06/hugo_chavezs_economic_miracle/