GM Closings - Wisconsin Vs. Venezuela

Today's The New York Times includes a review of a book lamenting the closure of a GM plant in Wisconsin:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/19/books/review-janesville-amy-goldstein.html

Earlier, we learned that another GM plant had been seized in Venezuela:

http://money.cnn.com/2017/04/20/news/gm-venezuela-plant-seized/

While it's difficult to know why the plant in Venezuela was seized, one thing is certain - in the US a corporation can turn a multi-billion dollar asset into a scrap heap whenever it wants to, no questions asked.

Does that make any sense to you?

I bet the workers in both locations could keep these plants running. Here's an example of how such a thing can be done:

http://sainthoward.blogspot.com/2017/04/sin-patron.html

Or does it make more sense to just scrap them and allow the corporations to take a tax write-off?