The Rise of Bolivarian Organized Crime- Caracas Gringo's Blog

Corruption has been endemic to Venezuela’s political institutions for decades. However, under President Hugo Chavez, corruption in Venezuela has exploded to new heights never experienced before in the country’s history. Chavez received a hollowed-out, institutionally weakened state when he assumed the presidency in 1999. But during the almost 11 years that Chavez has been in power, all of Venezuela’s institutions of democratic governance and law have been dismantled systematically. There is no constitutional separation of powers anymore in Bolivarian Venezuela. Chavez controls the National Assembly, Supreme Court, the Attorney General of the Republic, and the National Electoral Council (CNE)...

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Well the GOOD news is, as the Good Venezuelan people learn of all the truths and thievery, one fine day, a gallows can cater to the billionaire perpetrators of the fine Venezuelan people. And one day soon, a new Venezuela can emerge, again, as a good place, we can hope!