Agreed! Is anyone in Venezuela working toward that?
No country in Latin America ever saw that
There are many different interests here that doesn't allow the economy to simple become classic liberal overnight.
For decades allow the economies of the Continent have been very repressed, being the government the main actor in the economy (Keynesian policies or even socialist policies, like in Venezuela). This kind of capitalism run by governments allows only few oligopolies run by big companies that linked to the government itself (like Odebrecht in Brazil, one of our biggest companies which it's only client is Brazil government or other corrupted governments. Odebrecht os involved in corruption in all Latin America and Africa and it's former CEO is in jail).
Free market and a liberal economy are obvious threats to those elites oligopolies.
I don't think it is anything to do with democracy.
It has to do with democracy imo. Maduro sent to jail all his opposition before the election. Only 40% of population voted, and he won. Later on the Congress was able to remove him from presidency because of corruption, but he refused to leave.
Then guaipo became interim president, according to constitution .
If a corrupted president cannot be removed by the Congress, it's not a democracy, but a dictatorship.