Venezuela’s Oil and the Death of a Latin American Dream

On January 29, Venezuela’s acting President, Delcy Rodríguez, signed a law that opens Venezuela’s oil industry to privatization. With the stroke of a pen, Rodríguez signed, not only the law, but the death certificate of a decades old Latin American dream. In 2007, Hugo Chávez, the democratically elected President of Venezuela, completed the nationalization of […]