2007, this is when the USA declared Chavez to be a terrorist. As soon as he stopped playing the borrow and get raped for resources game with the USA, the sanctions and false narratives began. It took 8 long years to get them to this point, and if oil never dropped, they never would have been able to. Saddest part is, the people in the USA are fucking clueless about the reall fukery going on here.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/01/world/americas/01iht-venez.1.5513389.html