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Crude Nation How Oil Riches Ruined Venezuela

Hardcover • 2016 • English

Crude Nation How Oil Riches Ruined Venezuela

By Ral Gallegos

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About the book

Beneath Venezuelan soil lies an ocean of crude—the world’s largest reserves—an oil patch that shaped the nature of the global energy business. Unfortunately, a dysfunctional anti-American, leftist government controls this vast resource and has used its wealth to foster voter support, ultimately wreaking economic havoc. Crude Nation reveals the ways in which this mismanagement has led to Venezuela’s economic ruin and turned the country into a cautionary tale for the world. Raúl Gallegos, a forme...Show more

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9781612347707

Publisher

U of Nebraska Press

Published year

2016

Language

English

Original title

Crude Nation How Oil Riches Ruined Venezuela

Format

Hardcover

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