Why are Cuba and Venezuela in bad conditions?
Is it because of the left-wing regime? Or international powers?
I'm fully anti-capitalist though I haven't gotten too deep on the topic because I only started to open my eyes once everything that happened in the US happened and because of my studies in philosophy.
I'm not sure if Maduro is "truly" a socialist but my Bolsonarista/MAGA (I'm from Brazil; Bolsonaro is our former president who is now in prison) family says that Venezuela only became bad because of the left-wing regime of Maduro. Then they bring up Cuba, and how they failed because of their left-wing regime.
Then it was mentioned how Venezuela has the right resources (oil) so why are they doing badly? My uncle said it was because "nobody wants to work" and that "companies were thrown out of the country so there's no jobs". Then my father said that Trump commenced a regime change in Venezuela because China kept taking oil from there so they were trying to stop China from getting oil.
I'm not even sure how the whole "fight for oil" justification was even a good one; if China was buying oil from Venezuela isn't that a good thing for Venezuela? Why would the US do that then?
I'm pretty sure I heard somewhere that Cuba wasn't doing too well even before the US embargo so is it left-wing policies that are causing this and the blockades are just worsening it?
I know Cuba's and Venezuela's condition is truly not very good and that it mostly started around the time they had a left-wing governance but I also know that it might just be a similar situation in Brazil where the "left" (PT; socialist turned social democrat) is good (bolsa família, final da escala 6x1, SUS, etc.) but it's still corrupt and not truly socialist; maybe it's the same situation?
What's actually going on?
PS: sorry if I said anything wrong, I'm not too educated in this and English is not my first language.