The fundamental issue is fairly simple.  Chavez was pushing a sort of ethnic nationalism for the mestizo majority. But his supporters just didn&#x27;t have the technical skills to run an advanced economy.<p>Instead of trying to fix that his government kept appointing people with degrees in Marxist Studies. Bad decisions were chronically made and the country decayed.<p>The infrastructure will continue to decay unless the voters find technocrats they trust. Eventually buildings are going to start collapsing.