Sunday, February 3, 2019

The seven best books to understand what is happening in Venezuela

Rory Carroll is the Guardian's Ireland correspondent and author of Comandante: Hugo Chavez's Venezuela.

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