Some of the main issues are:<p>Driving out professionals and putting cronies in to run infrastructure.  People who don&#x27;t care about &quot;capital equipment maintenance&quot; and things get run into the ground.<p>Political oppression.<p>Controlled economy, setting prices which create black markets.<p>Over reliance and lack of contingency planning vis a vis petroleum prices.<p>Overreliance on being &quot;anti-imperialists&quot; to be the antidote to their ills.<p>Etc, etc.