What do you get when you combine hyperinflation, mass unemployment, a destroyed education system, and murder rates that make war zones look safe?

In just one week:

Loaf of sandwich bread went from 2.1m to 6m Coca Cola went from 6m to 12m Can't find bar soap anywhere. pic.twitter.com/wfPuGJuN2C — Kaleb (@KalebPrime) September 10, 2018

A hellhole that people are trying to escape from no matter what, despite even countries that Venezuela doesn’t even border need to crack down on the wave of refugees. Of course, considering that this has led to a measles epidemic in Brazil, it is understandable.

Some are wondering if Venezuela will explode before it implodes. It is already exploding, literally:

Watch this power plant in Venezuela blow up. Venezuela is consuming all its capital stock at a rapid rate. The country is literally collapsing. Back in the USSR! pic.twitter.com/ElFC3un608 — Prof. Steve Hanke (@steve_hanke) September 8, 2018

Regardless, it’s hard to “explode” when dissenters are being rounded up as Kulaks and “wreckers”. And all the while Maduro leads the way by living high on the hog… or perhaps more accurately, living like a hog…

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