The "expropriation" policy proved costly for 21st-century socialism.
A quick timeline for those who didn't understand what Donald Trump wrote when ordering the oil embargo against Venezuela:
> Two decades of lost investments, closed plants, and expropriations of U.S. assets in Venezuela (and "to expropriate is to steal").
> 2007: ExxonMobil (Cerro Negro and La Ceiba), ConocoPhillips (Petrozuata, Hamaca, and Corocoro).
> 2009-2010: Halliburton, Schlumberger, Baker Hughes (oilfield services); AES Corporation (Electricidad de Caracas); Owens-Illinois (glass packaging plant); Cargill (food processor).
> 2016: Kimberly-Clark.
> 2017: General Motors (GM Venezuela) - 70 years in Venezuela ended.
> 2018: Kellogg’s (food), Procter & Gamble.