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> Venezuela has no sanctions applied to it by the US

Actually: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanctions_during_the_Venezuela...



I'm going to interpret your comment as "Venezuela is starving because of US sanctions"

We actually have a really nice unintentional experiment. The Biden administration removed sanctions from Venezuela, they still had starvation after sanctions were removed.

The dictator managed to get food while the country was starving however: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDebIITJ1x0




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