text: "... natural resources should be owned by the people ...  (and) everyone has healthcare ..."
  
  Also true of Cuba (for several decades now), and increasingly true in Venezuela.  
  
  In the case of Cuba, in the Bad Old Days hundreds of people died every year trying to get out of the place.  In Venezuela, people are 
  beginning to go hungry, according to the BBC - even though "the people" own the largest oil reserves in the world.
  
  The picture may be more nuanced than you realize.