A country with that much wealth should not be experiencing these problems. The people of Venezuela should be enjoying the best of times, not the worst of times. Columbia does not have the oil wealth of Venezuela. "Criminals are the ones to blame for any crime"? I thought the left wing view was that poverty was to blame for crime. Socialism does not work. It looks great on paper, but it does not work.
If we say that Capitalism spends an inordinate amount of other people's money around the world on security and surveillance to protect it's investments, in every facet of life that we can imagine because it feels besieged by enemies, then capitalism can only work in an atmosphere of ever expanding contingencies against whatever social objections and actions that the system gives rise to. Capitalism makes it clear everyday through public broadcasts in it's media organizations that it feels besieged and threatened by enemies, even amongst general populations that it says it is working on behalf of. Enemies are even created from those nations who mind their own business within their own countries, and who do not have the capacity to threaten other nations. Merely the presence of a desire for a different economic system is insult enough for capitalists. Similarly, Venezuelan socialism is beset by enemies who cannot tolerate people working toward a successful, socialist society that rejects capitalist models for itself. Wherever socialism emerges, it is usually ringed by enemies and infiltrated in extremely violent ways, and when socialist governments spend too much time reacting, and less resources are put at the disposal of the masses, this is described by capitalists as failure even as they're the initiators of the situation. Usually the capitalist scumbags and their supporters don't find it curious at all that 1000s of arrests and beatings of protesters in Capitalist nations, under-reported and misrepresented as they are in the capitalist media, is never seen as the system not working out so well. Suppression of dissent is seen as the success and triumph of law and order, which as we're told is an integral part of capitalist societies. Dissenters are seen, even among some nominal leftists, as criminals and terrorists who at the very least are placed on lists, presumably for currently unspecified attention in the event that capitalism deems such attention necessary. We can never be sure when this might be determined, but we can be quite sure that everything is being watched and recorded toward purposes that they're not letting on. To say socialism doesn't work is to neglect how beautifully it works around the world for capitalist industry and the financial sector, which is a statement consistent with myopic ignorance if you ask me. It's when somebody else comes up with the idea of expanding socialism to the masses, and after all manner of violence and subterfuge are thrown against it, that socialism is depicted as a failure.