Venezuela still has the world's largest oil reserves, and no ability to get it out of the ground

And you thought it was hard to get oil out of the American soil when Obama was president. The problem there was that Obama didn't want the oil pumped. He preferred to starve the U.S. oil industry while America continued to rely on foreign countries to meet our energy needs, because Obama preferred a weak America with no geopolitical leverage or economic power on the global state. The socialist government in Venezuela not only wants to get at the country's oil, it desperately needs it. The country's rich oil reserves are the only thing that gives nation's ravaged economy even the slightest chance of staying afloat. But the Maduro regime is so inept, corrupt and malevolent, they've actually destroyed their own ability to get at the oil. The Wall Street Journal reports on what's happened in Lake Maracaibo in Venezuela's Zulia region, where decaying infrastructure and incompetent management has caused a once oil-rich location to become a useless eyesore: