The problem is that socialist systems centralize economic power in the hands of government. Once that happens, the government also has the power to subvert the democratic process by punishing any political opposition economically.
Under Maduro, socialist economic policies and corruption have caused one of the worst economic and humanitarian crises in the Western Hemisphere in centuries. Annual inflation peaked at 344,509% in 2019.
Voters would surely throw any administration with this track record out of office in a free and fair election. At that point, when voters in any free country would demand a change of course, Venezuela's democratic socialism evolved into normal authoritarian socialism.
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