Yes it is.
Judging something as falling into "disrepair" sets your standard of "disrepair" as the subjective standard, and using Op-Eds as support doesn't help your case.
Furthermore, the global price per barrel didn't decline because of the state of Venezuela's oil production, like you're trying to pretend.
The global price per barrel declined because of increased production from OPEC member nations, of which Venezuela is one.
Venezuela could have invested every petro-dollar into new oil infrastructure and they still would face the same problems today because of the price per barrel
It's funny how Conservatives say they understand free markets and supply and demand, but rarely do they ever apply those to their shitty arguments.
You are arguing that if Venezuela had pumped money into their energy infrastructure instead of social programs for their people, that they wouldn't face what they['re facing today except that what they're facing today is the result of MORE oil production, not less. So spending petro-dollars to further isolate Venezuela's economy into petro would actually have made the situation worse because you'd be spending those oil revenues TO LOWER THEM OVERALL.
Increasing production decreases the price.
For some reason, you cannot grasp that.