In Venezuelan being an Entrepreneur is a Dangerous thing.

Last week, Trino Marquez wrote an interesting article in El Republicano Liberal entitled “Businessmen to the Firing Squad.”

He claims that in today’s Venezuelan political climate, being an entrepreneur is a bad and even a dangerous thing. 

When I was growing up, my father was a successful entrepreneur. He established several businesses in Venezuela and later after he retired and became bored out of his mind, he decided to buy land on the Southern part of Venezuela. He bought several books on agriculture and, voilà, he started his own vegetable farm. Soon, he was selling fruit and vegetables to the locals. He didn’t even need city water; my dad irrigated his crops from the ground water he had dug out.

The late Hugo Chavez closed and illegally appropriated hundreds of businesses in Venezuela. Chavez’s destructive legacy lingers today under the Maduro regime.

The government, instead of stimulating the production of products, has waged a war against private industry, accusing it of engaging in an economic war. This is a way for the regime to cover up high inflation, crime, corruption, and the unprecedented lack of products in the country. Venezuela is falling rapidly into an abysm and the only way to break free is to topple this criminal regime and convict the negative elements in order to stop this madness.