How Maduro Benefits From Wrecking Venezuela

Venezuela is suffering double-digit inflation and shortages of every kind.        
President  Nicholas Maduro is blaming the USA.  
But he is the one deliberately causing the economy to collapse.        
He's doing it in order to drive businessmen to flee the country.        
For example, an overseas missionary recently spoke at the church I attend.        
He told of a Venezuelan shopowner who was told to get out of the country or else his two daughters would be raped.        
So the family left the business behind.and fled next door to Colombia.        
He couldn't complain to the police about the threat.        
For it was the local police chief who made the threat.        
 
That got me thinking:        
If Maduro's police and army are deliberately driving out businessmen, the backbone of any society, just how does he benefit??        
Well, as the private sector shrinks, the former middle class folks become the "new poor."      
Together with the old poor, they are forced to turn to the government for handouts.    
But at the price of loyalty to the dictatorship of Maduro, successor to Chavez.
If they criticize the gov't they can be removed from the list of people getting gov't supplies.  
         
The Venezuelan gov't has supplies of food, meds, etc. to give to the poor, in particular, the loyal poor, loyal to Maduro.     
For the gov't makes billions of dollars off the state-owned oil industry.        
So as the economic downturn worsens, the poor are in the dictator's
pocket more than ever, more supportive than ever.        
For they have been bought off by gov't benefits        
         
I'm writing this to disabuse you of the  notion that Venezuela's troubles are a hopeful sign that Maduro is on the way out.        
On the contrary, it is the opposition that is on the way out  --  out of the country in droves.  As refugees.      
Intimidated, - spooked - into leaving everything behind.        
Yes, things are going according to plan, Maduro's own plan, to defeat
 the big capitalists and small businessmen by wrecking the economy.        
     
In a democracy, if the party in power mishandles the economy, the people vote the leader and his party out of office.        
And that is what the opposition tried to do in Venezuela.        
The opposition party gained a super majority in the national congress.        
They passed a recall of Maduro.        
But then he disbanded the congress.        
In short, the economic depression hasn't hurt him one bit.        
   
My point is that if a severe depression doesn't threaten a Marxist gov't like Maduro's, this suggests
that maybe that gov't doesn't necessarily look at the economic downward slide as a bad thing.        
On the contrary, they look on it as helpful.    
For it hurts the businesses and church groups that are standing in Maduro's way - at least for now.        
         
He can wait them out. For he's got $billions  in oil money.
Plus the army and police and the courts are on his side.
Plus the poor are loyal to him in return for the food, etc, stored in gov't warehouses.        
Whereas the business community can't wait Maduro out.        
For as their businesses go belly up,        
they run out of resources and increasingly migrate to near-by Colombia, Mexico or even America.        
       
Again, don't think Maduro's on the ropes just because the economy is in a shambles.        
Don't think that the poor are going to turn on him and swell the ranks of the        
opposition.
The poor have been bought.off.        
 Plus the army and police are under the control of the Cubans (Castroites).      
     
How ironic it is that the Communists who have always claimed to be the answer to capitalist exploitation of the working class,
have themselves become more exploitative than  even the worst capitalists, as shown
by their deliberate sabotage of a whole country, Venezuela,  
turning it into a basket case.