What's the matter with Caracas

We'd say a belief in discredited (over and over and over) ideas, but a sociologist thinks it's stuporido;

Any and all citizens ought to ask Venezuelan regulatory authorities for assurances in the field of security, to the mind of sociologist Ramón Piñango. The expert terms this stage as "stupor," a situation that prevents citizens from requiring proper actions.

Ask and ye shall receive...the attention of the authorities? Great idea for people ruled by an admirer of Fidel Castro.