The Architectures of Ruin – How Sanctions Kill in Venezuela and Beyond

The collapse of Venezuela is often narrated in the West as a simple morality play – a cautionary tale of socialist overreach and the inevitable rot of authoritarianism. Francisco Rodríguez’s “The Collapse of Venezuela” dismantles this caricature, showing with unusually rigorous economic evidence that roughly half of the country’s catastrophic decline was caused not by […]