One of his seven best books to understand what is happening in Venezuela, as shared at the Guardian:
Dragon in the Tropics, by the Venezuelan academics Javier Corrales and Michael Penfold, is a scholarly focus on the politics, explaining how Chávez bequeathed a system based on populism, personality cult, electoral success and authoritarianism to a hapless successor. Lacking the comandante’s charisma and his luck with high oil prices, Maduro dialled up the thuggery and militarisation.Read about the other books Carroll tagged.
--Marshal Zeringue
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