Stealing and rent seeking has nothing to do with “social contracts”

Sir, your reporters, on the issue of fuel subsidies, April 19, wrote: “For oil producers such as Venezuela… fuel subsidies are part of the social contract and relatively manageable.”

Venezuela sell’s its gasoline locally for less than 2 US$ cents per liter. Your reporters should never ever confuse blind and irresponsible rent seeking by which, those in power, usually with cars, rob the implicit value of the petrol or gasoline, from those poor and not in power, usually without cars, with any type or form of “social contract”.