Has Resource Wealth Undermined Good Governance in Ecuador and Venezuela?

Seminar paper from the year 2010 in the subject Politics - Region: Middle and South America, grade: 1,00, Jacobs University Bremen gGmbH, language: English, abstract: When I visited Venezuela as second travel destination after Ecuador in Latin America last year, I remember very well passing by a huge mural painted on an oil refinery, showing: “Patria, Socialismo o Muerte”. I was struck by that im...