Actually it's more like fixing a broken leg with a bullet to the head. 

Forced labor is indeed a human-rights abuse. Maybe you notice a pattern here. Wherever socialism is tried, people suffer. Each case is different because no tyrannical regime behaves exactly like any other. But the root of the problem is the refusal to allow people to own, accumulate, trade, and associate. 

Surely that is the core of the problem in Venezuela. 

Here We Go Again

No, say the socialists. "The problems plaguing the Venezuelan economy are not due to some inherent fault in socialism."