Sorry i don't buy it. I was born in Argentina and have met many Venezuelans (and many economic crisis). I know what a dictatorship is (I was born in one) and Venezuela is obviously not one.
Not all dictatorships are the same, but if you think Venezuela is so fine and democratic, you should take a trip there. Talk to brown people if you want, run an informal poll and see how much people like Maduro.
You are kidding. You have no idea what a dictatorship is and you insult the hundreds of thousands that have been disappeared, raped, tortured, jailed and the millions that have fled countries like Chile and Argentina, you have no idea what a police state is. You ignore what Venezuela was before Chavez, the thousands killed at the Caracazo. You are a joke, literally.
Venezuela is surely a liberal democracy, you just don't like the elected government.People of the Venezuelan opposition complain all the time and are mostly a bunch of fascists from wealthy environments (not all, but most of them). Their complaints are wildly hypocritical.
Hope the Petro will work, the rest is useless.