Crude Nation: How Oil Riches Ruined Venezuela - Couverture rigide

Gallegos, Raul

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1612347703 ISBN 13 : 9781612347707

Editeur : Potomac Books Inc, 2016

Synopsis

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 former Caracas-based oil correspondent, paints a picture both vivid and analytical of the country’s economic decline, the government’s foolhardy economic policies, and the wrecked lives of Venezuelans.

Without transparency, the Venezuelan government uses oil money to subsidize life for its citizens in myriad unsustainable ways, while regulating nearly every aspect of day-to-day existence in Venezuela. This has created a paradox in which citizens can fill up the tanks of their SUVs for less than one American dollar while simultaneously enduring nationwide shortages of staples such as milk, sugar, and toilet paper. Gallegos’s insightful analysis shows how mismanagement has ruined Venezuela again and again over the past century and lays out how Venezuelans can begin to fix their country, a nation that can play an important role in the global energy industry. This paperback edition features a new introduction by the author.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

RaÚl Gallegos, an associate director for the consulting firm Control Risks, has been a featured columnist for Bloomberg View, covering Latin American politics, business, and finance. He has been an oil correspondent with Dow Jones and the Wall Street Journal.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Potomac Books Inc
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1612347703
• ISBN 13: 9781612347707
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 256
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