Lemmy Lemmy:
And yet, under the shitbag communists's reign, Venezuela's economic growth has grossly outperformed both the USA's and ours. A piss-poor communist, to say the least.
All depends on how you slice the numbers.
Their national GDP has been in recession since 2011 after a period of growth but their per capita GDP tells a different story:

A rising GDP coupled with declining per capita income means that all of the new money in that country is being concentrated in a few pockets and the poor are getting even poorer than they were before.