Venezuela’s Collapse Is the Worst Outside of War in Decades, Economists Say

Zimbabwe’s collapse under Robert Mugabe. The fall of the Soviet Union. Cuba’s disastrous unraveling in the 1990s. The crumbling of Venezuela’s economy has now outpaced them all. Venezuela’s fall is the single largest economic collapse outside of war in at least 45 years, economists say...
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/17/world/americas/venezuela-economy.html