I'm now being told by my leftist friends that "It worked under Chavez, and Maduro is the one that has screwed it up."
I simply tell them, that they ran out of other people's money under Maduro.
The other excuse is the collapse of oil prices. To which I point out that no other oil producing countries collapsed as a result, and now that oil prices are high once again, how come things the economy continues to worsen in Venezuela ??