For starters, there's no possible way to relate Venezuela's reality with the Canadian reader's relatively cosy lifestyle and his perception of reality in Venezuela is as far removed from the reality of day to day living in Venezuela as you might possible get. To begin with, confusion is as much part of Venezuela's reality as the reality itself. The population is in a constant state of confusion over where the country and its leaders are headed.
Words are one thing, factual practicalities are quite another.
This being the historical 'reality', projecting the case for near-future 'reality' past contemporary economic and political woes, is not so much a matter of incineration but facing up to what's got to be done to get Venezuela back on rails that were never there in the first place. If one believes in democracy, there is no further need for explanation on that point. But, the 'reality' is that President Hugo Chavez Frias has been left with a bankrupted house by a succession of administrations where, despite the pseudo-reality of a democratic label, officials spent more time feathering their own nests, and less on any concept of patriotism or service to their country of birth or their elected office. Fat cats in Venezuela's political reality remain to this day, gloating on the sidelines as President Hugo Chavez Frias makes sometimes faltering steps to rectify the political and economic mayhem they left behind them and which they are still trying to bleed dry. Ditto in the administration of justice, ditto at just about every level of political and economic reality in Venezuela today.