Venezuela’s boom will fade as oil prices ease

The world is addicted to oil, as everyone knows. But there are few places with an addiction as deep, and as potentially destabilizing, as in Venezuela.

Consider that Venezuela pumps an estimated 2.5 million barrels of oil per day, about 3 per cent of global supply. At $60 per barrel, that’s close to $150 million per day in income generation.

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