This episode explores Venezuela’s dramatic political and economic trajectory through the lens of its oil wealth, tracing how the promise of prosperity devolved into crisis. Hosted by a narrator who brings in historian Alejandro Velasco, the story reveals how oil — a resource meant to elev
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