Socialism is when the workers own the means of production. Workers being the people who work as opposed to an owning class that doesn't work. And means of production being the farms, factories etc. Just because Venezuela had nationalised resources and free healthcare doesn't make them socialist....

You could say that Venezuela was trying to build socialism. They did have a lot of socialist inspired policies, their revolution was originally based on Marxism or something similar I think but even under Chavez they were leaning more towards nationalism. Truth be told it's hard for a socialist cou...