The Democratically elected government chose a "system"' with the implied blessing of the electorate. With a petro-economy, that didn't fit with the rest of the petro complex....corps, nations, oligarchs, financiers, gangsters etc. (not sure about gas stations....that CITGO stand up there not far NW of you got 2/3 or more of our car gas business for years when we got by there, which was often 5-10 times a month. It never seemed watered down and was more often or not the best value between Windom and the Twin Cities).
GM and the oil concerns in business there wanted more favorable terms for labor and wholesale resource extraction. The government wasn't forthcoming, being aware as all Bolivarians would be, of how that works out for 2nd world nations and economies and peoples usually does. All that remained was punitive action.
Essentially, with there being no better way of saying it, they had to be "broke of sucking eggs", as you would a bad dog.
i'm sure that you have "read up on it". There have been volumes written on the matter. From every corner.
