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U.S. Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump’s threat to cut off Venezue­lan oil sales could dev­as­tate a coun­try al­ready wran­gling with years of spi­ralling crises.

The prospect added to Venezue­lans’ col­lec­tive anx­i­ety over their coun­try’s fu­ture on Wednes­day. But af­ter years of po­lit­i­cal, so­cial and eco­nom­ic chal­lenges, Venezue­lans al­so treat­ed the threat like an­oth­er in­con­ve­nience — even when it could bring back the short­ages of food, gaso­line and oth­er goods that de­fined the coun­try’s last decade.

“Well, we’ve al­ready had so many crises, short­ages of so many things — food, gaso­line — that one more ... well, one doesn’t wor­ry any­more,” Mi­la­gro Viana said while wait­ing to catch a bus in Cara­cas, the cap­i­tal.